Animal Spirits in a Monetary Model

@article{Farmer2019AnimalSI,
  title={Animal Spirits in a Monetary Model},
  author={Roger E. A. Farmer and Konstantin Platonov},
  journal={Macroeconomics: Aggregative Models eJournal},
  year={2019}
}
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