Asymmetric persistence in GDP? A deeper look at depth

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 535-554

  Hess, Gregory D ^a   Iwata, Shigeru ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Business cycle asymmetries; Non standard distributions; Random walk

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031498504     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3932(97)00057-3     Document Type: Article

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