Forecasting ECB Monetary Policy : Accuracy is (Still) a Matter of Geography /

Monetary policy in the euro area is conducted within a multicountry, multicultural, and multilingual context involving multiple central banking traditions. How does this heterogeneity affect the ability of economic agents to understand and to anticipate monetary policy by the European Central Bank (...

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Päätekijä: Ehrmann, Michael
Muut tekijät: Berger, Helge, Fratzscher, Marcel
Aineistotyyppi: Aikakauslehti
Kieli:English
Julkaistu: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Sarja:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/041
Linkit:Full text available on IMF
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