Chapter 21 The financial accelerator in a quantitative business cycle framework

Handbook of Macroeconomics

Volumn 1, Issue PART C, 1999, Pages 1341-1393

  Bernanke, Ben S ^a   Gertler, Mark ^a   Gilchrist, Simon ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

business fluctuations; financial accelerator; monetary policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449530457     PISSN: 15740048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0048(99)10034-X     Document Type: Review

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