How useful is the concept of the natural real rate of interest for monetary policy?

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 49-63

  Weber, Axel A ^a   Lemke, Wolfgang ^a   Worms, Andreas ^a  

^a DEUTSCHE BUNDESBANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Monetary policy; Natural real rate of interest; Wicksell

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INTEREST RATE; MONETARY POLICY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 38749114689     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/bem018     Document Type: Article

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