Death to the log-linearized consumption Euler equation! (and very poor health to the second-order approximation)

B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Carroll, Christopher Dixon ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumption; Euler equation; Excess sensitivity; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85108074356     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-6013.1003     Document Type: Article

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