Monetary Policy Credibility: Is there a Magic Bullet?
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Keywords
Monetary Policy; Credibility; Institutions;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
- E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
- E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-MAC-2016-12-11 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-PBE-2016-12-11 (Public Economics)
- NEP-URE-2016-12-11 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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