Model comparison and robustness: A proposal for policy analysis after the financial crisis1

What's Right with Macroeconomics?

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 33-67

  Wieland, Volker ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781781007402.00012     Document Type: Chapter

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