Interest rate stepping: Theory and evidence

A stylised fact of monetary policymaking is that central banks do not immediately respond to new information but seem instead to prefer to wait until sufficient ‘evidence’ to warrant a change has accumulated. However, theoretical models of inflation targeting imply that an optimising central bank sh...

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Main Authors: Sylvester Eijffinger, Eric Schaling, Willem Verhagen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2007-04-01
Series:Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences
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Online Access:https://jefjournal.org.za/index.php/jef/article/view/380