Monetary policy inertia: More a fiction than a fact?

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 900-906

  Consolo, Agostino ^a   Favero, Carlo A ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Generalized method of moments; Monetary policy rules; Policy gradualism; Weak identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349127275     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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