Investment dynamics with fixed capital adjustment cost and capital market imperfections

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1909-1947

  Bayer, Christian ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Imperfect capital markets; Investment; Non convex adjustment cost; Non linear error correction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750845038     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.04.001     Document Type: Article

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