Do government policy multipliers decrease with inflation?

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 495-505

  Koelln, Kenneth ^a   Rush, Mark ^b   Waldo, Doug ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflation; New keynesian; Sticky prices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030525268     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3932(96)01289-5     Document Type: Article

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