Aggregate shocks or aggregate information? Costly information and business cycle comovement

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 54, Issue SUPPL., 2007, Pages 37-55

  Veldkamp, Laura ^a   Wolfers, Justin ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Comovement puzzle; Information markets

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547663691     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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