On measuring the welfare cost of business cycles

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 61-92

  Otrok, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business cycles; E32; Non separable preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002209692     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3932(00)00052-0     Document Type: Article

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