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Optimal Monetary Policy Inertia

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Woodford, Michael (Princeton University)

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Paper provided by Stockholm University, Institute for International Economic Studies in its series Seminar Papers with number 666.

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Keywords: commitment discretion interest-rate smoothing monetary policy rules forward-looking models natural rate of interest

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