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Economic Record Pub Date : 2025-03-14 DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12867

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Changes in the Inflation Target and the Comovement Between Inflation and the Nominal Interest Rate1

IF 1.1 4区经济学

Economic Record Pub Date : 2025-01-13 DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12853

Yunjong Eo, Denny Lie

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The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis, edited by Youssef Cassis and Jean-Jacques Helten (2023), 219 pages + xiv front matter

IF 1.1 4区经济学

Economic Record Pub Date : 2024-12-09 DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12850

Aneeq Sarwar

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Australia's Pandemic Exceptionalism: How We Crushed the Curve but Lost the Race, by Steven Hamilton and Richard Holden (UNSW Press, Sydney, 2024), pp. 228

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Economic Record Pub Date : 2024-12-09 DOI: 10.1111/1475-4932.12857

Declan Trott

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Microeconomics for Managers: Principles and Applications by Richard B. McKenzie, D. Eric Schansberg and Dwight R. Lee (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2024)