Productivity and US macroeconomic performance: Interpreting the past and predicting the future with a two-sector real business cycle model

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 473-492

  Ireland, Peter N ^a,b   Schuh, Scott ^c  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Productivity; Two sector real business cycle model

Indexed keywords

EID: 44649101350     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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