Monetary and fiscal policy switching

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 809-842

  Chung, Hess ^a   Davig, Troy ^b   Leeper, Eric M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiscal theory of the price level; Policy interactions; Regime change; Taylor rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250216748     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2007.00047.x     Document Type: Article

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