Chapter 1 Business cycle fluctuations in us macroeconomic time series

Handbook of Macroeconomics

Volumn 1, Issue PART A, 1999, Pages 3-64

  Stock, James H ^a   Watson, Mark W ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

economic fluctuations; long run macroeconomic relations; Phillips curve

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956750491     PISSN: 15740048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0048(99)01004-6     Document Type: Review

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