Idiosyncratic shocks and the role of nonconvexities in plant and aggregate investment dynamics

Econometrica

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 395-436

  Khan, Aubhik ^a   Thomas, Julia K ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

(S, s) policies; Lumpy investment; Quantitative general equilibrium

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149127544     PISSN: 00129682     EISSN: 14680262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0262.2008.00837.x     Document Type: Article

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