Should Central Banks Target Happiness? Evidence from Latin America
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- Luengas, Pavel & Ruprah, Inder J., 2011. "Should Central Banks Target Happiness?: Evidence from Latin America," IDB Publications (Working Papers) 3013, Inter-American Development Bank.
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Keywords
Happiness; Life Satisfaction; Inflation; Unemployment; and Misery Index;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
- D60 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - General
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean
- C30 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBA-2009-06-17 (Central Banking)
- NEP-HAP-2009-06-17 (Economics of Happiness)
- NEP-MON-2009-06-17 (Monetary Economics)
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