A New Keynesian model with heterogeneous expectations

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1036-1051

  Branch, William A ^a   McGough, Bruce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive learning; Aggregation; Heterogeneous expectations; Monetary policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 63749113045     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2008.11.007     Document Type: Article

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