Voting transparency in a monetary union

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 831-853

  Gersbach, Hans ^a   Hahn, Volker ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central banks; Committees; ECB; Monetary union; Transparency; Voting

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249149482     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2009.00235.x     Document Type: Article

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