Price and investment dynamics: Theory and plant-level data

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 907-934

  Lundin, Magnus ^a   Gottfries, Nils ^b   Bucht, Charlotte ^c   LindstrÖm, Tomas ^d  

^a Natl Institute of Economic Research   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Swedish Ministry of Finance   (Sweden)

^d Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Credit constraint; Investment equation; Price equation; Price rigidity

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249141698     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2009.00238.x     Document Type: Article

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