How the European Central Bank decided its early monetary policy?

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 927-936

  Garcia Iglesias, Jesus M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BANK; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC GROWTH; GUIDELINE; INFLATION; INTEREST RATE; MONETARY POLICY; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34247638460     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840500461931     Document Type: Article

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