United Kingdom inflation targeting and the exchange rate

Economic Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 512, 2006, Pages

  Allsopp, Christopher ^a   Kara, Amit ^b   Nelson, Edward ^c  

^a NEW COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UBS Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC PLANNING; EXCHANGE RATE; INFLATION; MONETARY POLICY; POLICY STRATEGY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33746418842     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01098.x     Document Type: Article

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