Business cycle analysis without much theory A look at structural vars

Journal of Econometrics

Volumn 83, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 57-88

  Cooley, Thomas F ^a,b   Dwyer, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Identification; Structural VARs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001851285     PISSN: 03044076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4076(97)00065-1     Document Type: Article

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