TFP during a credit crunch

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 148, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1150-1178

  Petrosky Nadeau, Nicolas ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Business cycles; Financial frictions; Job creation and destruction; Productivity; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877605719     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2012.09.019     Document Type: Article

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