What have central bankers learned from modern macroeconomic theory?

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 11-22

  Howitt, Peter ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based computational economics; DSGE; Financial stability; Inflation targeting; Macro theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857442448     PISSN: 01640704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2011.08.005     Document Type: Article

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