The Taylor rule and interest rates in the EMU area: a note

BIS Working Papers  |  No 73  | 
02 August 1999
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We demonstrate that average interest rates in the EMU countries in 1990-98, with the exception of the period of exchange market turmoil in 1992-93, moved very closely with average output gaps and inflation as suggested by the Taylor rule.