Tracking the new economy: Using growth theory to detect changes in trend productivity

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1670-1701

  Kahn, James A ^a   Rich, Robert W ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Factor model; Neoclassical growth model; Productivity growth; Regime switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547741552     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.07.008     Document Type: Article

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