Are the responses of the U.S. economy asymmetric in energy price increases and decreases?

Quantitative Economics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 419-453

  Kilian, Lutz ^a   Vigfusson, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymmetry; Energy prices; Net increase; Oil price; Propagation; Shocks; Transmission; Vector autoregression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855976079     PISSN: 17597323     EISSN: 17597331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3982/QE99     Document Type: Article

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