Learning in a medium-scale dsge model with expectations based on small forecasting models

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 65-101

  Slobodyan, Sergey ^a   Wouters, Raf ^b  

^a CERGE EI   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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EID: 84864981130     PISSN: 19457707     EISSN: 19457715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/mac.4.2.65     Document Type: Article

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