Computation of business cycle models: A comparison of numerical methods

Macroeconomic Dynamics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 641-663

  Heer, Burkhard ^a   Maußner, Alfred ^b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BOZEN BOLZANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Extended path; Genetic search; Log linearization; Parameterized expectations; Perturbation methods; Projection methods; Value function iteration

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949152289     PISSN: 13651005     EISSN: 14698056     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1365100508070363     Document Type: Article

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