Bounded rationality and strategic complementarity in a macroeconomic model: Policy effects, persistence and multipliers

Economic Journal

Volumn 107, Issue 444, 1997, Pages 1358-1374

  Bomfim, Antúlio N ^a   Diebold, Francis X ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0001243235     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.1997.tb00052.x     Document Type: Article

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