Interpreting euro area inflation at high and low frequencies

European Economic Review

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 964-986

  Assenmacher Wesche, Katrin ^a   Gerlach, Stefan ^b  

^a SWISS NATIONAL BANK   (Switzerland)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Frequency domain; Inflation; Money growth; Quantity theory; Spectral regression

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BANK; EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION; INFLATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 49349101940     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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