Monetary policy analysis with potentially misspecified models

American Economic Review

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1415-1450

  Del Negro, Marco ^a   Schorfheide, Frank ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 70349300319     PISSN: 00028282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/aer.99.4.1415     Document Type: Article

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