Evaluating inflation targeting as a monetary policy objective for India

Economic Modelling

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1053-1063

  Mishra, Ankita ^a   Mishra, Vinod ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

CPI; India; Inflation targeting; Monetary policy; Taylor's rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859741461     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2012.02.020     Document Type: Article

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