Inflation targeting and business cycle synchronization

Journal of International Money and Finance

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 704-727

  Flood, Robert P ^a   Rose, Andrew K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilateral; Business cycle; Data; Empirical; GDP; Insulation; Regime; Synchronization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952877368     PISSN: 02615606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jimonfin.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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