Schumpeter meeting Keynes: A policy-friendly model of endogenous growth and business cycles

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1748-1767

  Dosi, Giovanni ^a,b   Fagiolo, Giorgio ^a   Roventini, Andrea ^a,c  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agent based computational economics; Business cycle policies; Business cycles; Empirical validation; Endogenous growth; Evolutionary economics; Growth policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956777443     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2010.06.018     Document Type: Article

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