A decade of dissent: explaining the dissent voting behavior of Bank of England MPC members
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- Harris, Mark & Spencer, Christopher, 2008. "Decade of dissent: explaining the dissent voting behavior of Bank of England MPC members," MPRA Paper 9100, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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Bank of England; Monetary Policy Committee; Career background effects; Dissent voting; Appointment channels; Unobserved heterogeneity;All these keywords.
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- D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
- E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
- C35 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
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