How sticky is sticky enough? A distributional and impulse response analysis of new Keynesian DSGE models

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1481-1508

  Korenok, Oleg ^a   Swanson, Norman R ^b  

^a Department of Economics

^b The State University of New Jersey

Author keywords

Empirical distribution; Model selection; Sticky information; Sticky price

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548349221     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2007.00075.x     Document Type: Article

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