Why are the effects of money-supply shocks asymmetric? convex aggregate supply or "pushing on a string"?

Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 605-619

  Karras, Georgios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0039334019     PISSN: 01640704     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0164-0704(96)80054-1     Document Type: Article

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