The dissent voting behaviour of central bankers: what do we really know?

Applied Economics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 450-461

  Horvath, Roman ^a   Rusnak, Marek ^a,b   Smidkova, Katerina ^a,b   Zapal, Jan ^c,d,e  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b CZECH NATIONAL BANK   (Czech Republic)

^c CERGE EI   (Czech Republic)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^e Barcelona)   (Spain)

Author keywords

dissent; monetary policy; voting record

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CENTRAL BANK; MONETARY POLICY; POLICY MAKING; VOTING BEHAVIOR;

CZECH REPUBLIC; HUNGARY; SWEDEN; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84887870841     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2013.851775     Document Type: Article

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