Determinacy, learnability, and monetary policy inertia

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1177-1212

  Bullard, James ^a   Mitra, Kaushik ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Determinacy; Instrument instability; Learning; Monetary policy rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547404296     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2007.00062.x     Document Type: Article

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