Monetary Policy, Inflation Expectations and The Price Puzzle

Economic Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 549, 2010, Pages 1262-1283

  Castelnuovo, Efrem ^a   Surico, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC THEORY; INFLATION; INTEREST RATE; MONETARY POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRICE DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 78649403418     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02368.x     Document Type: Article

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