Why Are Target Interest Rate Changes so Persistent

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 126-162

  Coibion, Olivier ^a   Gorodnichenko, Yuriy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84872187654     PISSN: 19457707     EISSN: 19457715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/mac.4.4.126     Document Type: Article

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