How important is precommitment for monetary policy?

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 847-872

  Dennis, Richard ^a   Söderström, Ulf ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discretion; Precommitment; Stabilization bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745942839     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2006.0054     Document Type: Article

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