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Implementing Optimal Policy through Inflation-Forecast Targeting

In: The Inflation-Targeting Debate

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Lars E.O. Svensson
Michael Woodford

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This chapter was published in: Lars E.O. Svensson & Michael Woodford The Inflation-Targeting Debate, , pages 19-92, 2004.

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Ben S. Bernanke & Michael Woodford, 2004. "The Inflation-Targeting Debate," NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number bern04-1.
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