Solving DSGE models with perturbation methods and a change of variables

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2509-2531

  Fernández Villaverde, Jesús ^a   Rubio Ramírez, Juan F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Changes of variables; Computational methods; Dynamic equilibrium economies; Linear and nonlinear solution methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749035245     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2005.07.009     Document Type: Article

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