Can Habit Formation Be Reconciled with Business Cycle Facts?

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-99

  Lettau, Martin ^a   Uhlig, Harald ^b  

^a Research Department   (United States)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Habit formation; real business cycles; consumption

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002764773     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/redy.1998.0035     Document Type: Article

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