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Could the United States have had a better central bank? An historical counterfactual speculation

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Title
Could the United States have had a better central bank? An historical counterfactual speculation
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Journal of Macroeconomics, September 2012
DOI 10.1016/j.jmacro.2012.02.009
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Country Count As %
United States 1 5%
Japan 1 5%
Unknown 20 91%

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Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 23%
Student > Master 3 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 14%
Student > Postgraduate 2 9%
Librarian 1 5%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 5 23%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 9 41%
Social Sciences 3 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 2 9%
Environmental Science 1 5%
Psychology 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 5 23%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 August 2016.
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#22,695,529
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#506
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