Idiosyncratic risk and aggregate employment dynamics

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 331-353

  Campbell, Jeffrey ^a,b   Fisher, Jonas D M ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjustment costs; Business cycle volatility; Employment dynamics; Idiosyncratic risk; Plant life cycle

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842710982     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1094-2025(03)00057-7     Document Type: Article

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