Chapter 3 Monetary policy regimes and economic performance: The historical record

Handbook of Macroeconomics

Volumn 1, Issue PART A, 1999, Pages 149-234

  Bordo, Michael D ^a   Schwartz, Anna J ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bretton Woods; convertibility rule; difference stationary process; domestic policy regime; exchange rate arrangements; Federal Reserve; gold standard; Great Depression; Great Inflation of the 1970s; inflation level; inflation persistence; inflation variability; managed float; nominal anchor; output level; output variability; permanent shocks; price level uncertainty; rules; stabilization goals; temporary shocks; trend stationary process

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956730414     PISSN: 15740048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0048(99)01006-X     Document Type: Review

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