A New Keynesian Perspective on the Great Recession

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 31-54

  Ireland, Peter N ^a  

^a NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate demand and supply; Great recession; New Keynesian; Zero lower bound

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751611866     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2010.00364.x     Document Type: Article

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