Firm-specific capital, nominal rigidities and the business cycle

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 225-247

  Altig, David ^a   Christiano, Lawrence J ^b   Eichenbaum, Martin ^c   Lindé, Jesper ^d  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ATLANTA   (United States)

^b University of Northwestern St Paul   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflation inertia; Monetary policy shocks; Neutral and investment specific technology shocks; Sticky prices and wages; Structural vector autoregressive (VAR) model

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952190241     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2010.01.001     Document Type: Article

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