Chapter 12 Aggregate investment

Handbook of Macroeconomics

Volumn 1, Issue PART B, 1999, Pages 813-862

  Caballero, Ricardo J ^a  

^a Architecture Machine Group

Author keywords

(S, s) models; adjustment hazard; aggregation; D21; D23; E22; E32; incomplete contracts; irreversible investment; non linearities; pent up investment; private information; sunk costs

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956767363     PISSN: 15740048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0048(99)10020-X     Document Type: Review

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