Identifying The Sources Of Instabilities In Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1186-1204

  Inoue, Atsushi ^a   Rossi, Barbara ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84861218594     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: 15309142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00130     Document Type: Article

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