How the ECB and the US Fed set interest rates

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2007, Pages 2197-2209

  Belke, Ansgar ^a   Polleit, Thorsten ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b FRANKFURT SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BANK; EXCHANGE RATE; FINANCIAL POLICY; INFLATION; INTEREST RATE; MONETARY POLICY; SIMULATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548612179     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600749623     Document Type: Article

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