A quantitative exploration of the opportunistic approach to disinflation

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1877-1893

  Aksoy, Yunus ^a   Orphanides, Athanasios ^b   Small, David ^b   Wieland, Volker ^c,d,e   Wilcox, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^e Center for Financial Studies   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disinflation; Inflation targeting; Interest rates; Monetary policy; Policy rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750806497     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2005.08.015     Document Type: Article

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