Time to reject the privileging of economic theory over empirical evidence? A reply to Lawson

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 423-436

  Juselius, Katarina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

CVAR approach; Dahlem report; Datafirst; Economic crisis; Imperfect knowledge expectations; Non stationary data; Theory first

Indexed keywords

COINTEGRATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENT THEORY; ECONOMIC THEORY; FINANCIAL CRISIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 79952370581     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/beq024     Document Type: Article

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