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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Format: | Journal |
Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2002.
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Series: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2002/220 |
Online Access: | Full text available on IMF |