Instability of sunspot equilibria in real business cycle models under adaptive learning

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 879-903

  Duffy, John ^a   Xiao, Wei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Expectations; Indeterminacy; Learning; Real business cycle models; Stability; Sunspots

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247136742     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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