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Monetary Policy Objectives in Pakistan: An Empirical Investigation

The Taylor rule (1993) focuses only on two objectives: output and inflation. In practice, the central bank’s loss function (especially in developing countries) contains objectives other than these two...

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Monetary Policy Transparency in Pakistan: An Independent Analysis

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Price Setting Behaviour of Pakistani Firms: Evidence from Four Industrial Cities of Punjab

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