Sluggish inflation and optimizing models of the business cycle

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 303-322

  Nelson, E ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business cycle models; E31; E52; Inflation; Sticky price models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001332957     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3932(98)00024-5     Document Type: Article

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