... German business cycles on the economic fluctuations of its European neighbors, corresponds in its characteristic features to the basic realbusinesscycle models presented in the seminal ...
... Finally, on the positive side, Bordo et al. (2000) show that the sticky wage hypothesis could provide a fitting explanation of the onset of the Great Depression, within a RBC framework. In this paper, the authors build a ...
... standard realbusinesscycle models with stochastic trends are more satisfying from an asset pricing perspective as opposed to those stationary in ...
... for realbusinesscycle methods and Den Haan and Marcet (1994) present an accuracy ...Solving realbusinesscycle models using linearization has a long history; see, ...
... In contrast, in an RBC (realbusinesscycle) model, agents are long lived and in fact have innite life. The long-life assumption plays an important role in the working of the world under ...
... To model the observed weak correlation between labor hours and the return to working, several strategies 32 emerged. The strategy pursued by Christiano and Eichenbaum (1992) was to simply abandon the one-shock model of ...
... 10. A possible microfoundation of such labour supply can be performed by considering a representative agent that maximises an instantaneous utility function whose arguments are consumption and leisure; moreover labour is ...
... This paper both is, and is not, about “extreme” risk aversion. On the one hand, I do consider some very high degrees of risk aversion in the numerical simulations below, the point being to illustrate the robustness of ...
... provides one direction: test models by subjecting them to shocks for which we are fairly certain how actual economies would react. We can, however, take a broader stance on this issue. We will more easily trust models ...
... match businesscycle featues, we have chosen to focus on the capacity of the models to yield plausible predictions about the risk free real interest ...
... This paper incorporates Rational Inattention as de…ned by Sims (2003a) to a traditional RBC model with multiple sources of uncertainty. Our model distinguishes between transitory and permanent labor and relative ...
... standard realbusinesscycle model the movements in the efficiency wedge account relatively well for the movements in the model’s real variables, and output ...the real risk-free rate ...
... of realbusinesscycle models to represent the actual economy by investigating the relative importance of supply versus demand shocks as the driving force of the ...the cycle in a number of ...
... between real wages and cyclical fluctuations appears to vary over time and across countries (a result emphasized in Michie, ...the cycle and to drive macroeconomic modelling in new directions: on the one ...
... of business cycles has evolved over the past few ...current business cy- cle theorists agree that cycles result, not from a naturally recurring cycle in economic variables, but from unex- pected ...
... Inventory levels tend to fluctuate much due to the fact that some inventories accumulation is unplanned by businesses (the so called inventory cycle) and this in turn can contribute to, and explain, the ...
... At the same time, due to the reduction in the real wage, firms start to substitute capital with labor leading to a decrease in the demand of investments. This decrease leads to a reduction of the price for new ...