Evaluating the forecasting performance of linear and nonlinear monetary policy rules for South Africa

Evaluating the forecasting performance

of linear and nonlinear monetary policy

rules for South Africa

Kasai, Ndahiriwe and Naraidoo, Ruthira

Department of Economics, Kigali Independent University, Rwanda,

Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, South Africa

June 2011

Online at

https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/40699/

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