Simple monetary policymaking without the output gap

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1619-1640

  Leitemo, Kai ^a   Lønning, Ingunn ^b  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Monetary policy; Simple rules; Taylor rules; Uncertain output gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748539033     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2006.0085     Document Type: Article

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