The importance of the number of different agents in a heterogeneous asset-pricing model

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 721-746

  Den Haan, Wouter J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic model; Large state space model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001417501     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1889(00)00038-5     Document Type: Article

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