Fixed costs and long-lived investments

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 86-100

  House, Christopher L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Elasticity of investment demand; Fixed costs; Irrelevance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922441975     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2014.07.011     Document Type: Article

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