Lumpy Investment, Lumpy Inventories

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 821-855

  Bachmann, Rüdiger ^a   Ma, Lin ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

E20; E22; E30; E32; general equilibrium; heterogeneous firms; inventories; lumpy investment; two sector model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84980413791     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jmcb.12319     Document Type: Article

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