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Monetary Policy, Bank Credit, and Total Credit: A Preliminary Analysis

Working Papers

October 1973, No. 73-2

For the last three years, the Federal Open Market Committee has focused greater attention on certain monetary and credit aggregates in specifying its longer-run targets.

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Katrina Mullen