Political economists or political economists? The role of political environments in the formation of fed policy under burns, Greenspan, and Bernanke

The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance - Tập 71 - Trang 1-13 - 2019
Alexander W. Salter1, Daniel J. Smith2
1Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University, 703 Flint Ave., Lubbock, TX, 79410, United States
2Department of Economics and Finance, Jones College of Business, Middle Tennessee State University, 1301 E. Main St., Murfreesboro, TN, 37132, United States

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