Fiscal policy, increasing returns, and endogenous fluctuations

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 633-664

  Guo, Jang Ting ^a   Lansing, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Business Cycles; Chaos; Fiscal Policy; Nonlinear Dynamics; Sunspots

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036406199     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1365100501010112     Document Type: Article

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