Are structural VARs with long-run restrictions useful in developing business cycle theory?

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1337-1352

  Chari, V V ^a,b   Kehoe, Patrick J ^a,b   McGrattan, Ellen R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Impulse response; Real business cycle; Technology shocks; Vector autoregressions

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349121299     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2008.09.010     Document Type: Article

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