The structural dynamics of U.S. output and inflation: What explains the changes?

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 40, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 369-388

  Gambetti, Luca ^a   Pappa, Evi ^a   Canova, Fabio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b CEPR ^*

Author keywords

Persistence; Structural time varying VARs; Transmission; Variability

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549105440     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2008.00117.x     Document Type: Article

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