Monetary Policy Credibility and the Unemployment-Inflation Tradeoff : Some Evidence From 17 Industrial Countries /

Using data on long-term interest rates for 17 industrial countries, this paper develops some simple measures of monetary policy credibility and then tests if such measures improve the out-of-sample forecasts of conventional models of the inflation-unemployment process. The results provide some evide...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: N'Diaye, Papa
Other Authors: Laxton, Douglas
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2002.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2002/220
Online Access:Full text available on IMF