Volatile Interest Rates, Volatile Crime Rates: A new argument for interest-rate smoothing
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crime; monetary policy; vector autoregressive models (VARs);All these keywords.
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- E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
- C3 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CFN-2005-03-20 (Corporate Finance)
- NEP-MAC-2005-03-20 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-MON-2005-03-20 (Monetary Economics)
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