Comparing monetary policy reaction functions: ECB versus Bundesbank

Empirical Economics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 645-662

  Hayo, Bernd ^a,b   Hofmann, Boris ^b  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bundesbank; ECB; Monetary policy; Taylor rule

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BANK; EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION; INFLATION; INTEREST RATE; MONETARY POLICY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 33748160193     PISSN: 03777332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-005-0040-7     Document Type: Article

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