Inflation dynamics in the euro area and in new EU members: Implications for monetary policy

Economic Modelling

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1116-1127

  Hondroyiannis, George ^a   Swamy, P A V B ^b   Tavlas, George S ^c  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

^c Economics Research Department   (Greece)

Author keywords

New Keynesian Phillips Curve; Spurious relationships; Time varying coefficients

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049107283     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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