This article reviews the recent literature on Dynamic and Stochastic General Equilibrium Models for Sub-Saharan Africa business cycles. This literature has two objectives (i) to identify the factors specific to these countries that explain their high volatility and (ii) to assess the relevant...

Using a Markov‐switching VAR, we show that the effects of uncertainty shocks on output are four times higher in a regime of economic distress than in a tranquil regime. We then provide a structural interpretation of these facts. To do so, we develop a business cycle model in which agents are...

[eng] This article studies the long-term relationship between labor productivity growth and unemployment. Measures of co-movements in the frequency domain indicate that the relationship is strongly negative for the seven countries studied : United States, Canada, Japan, United Kingdom, France,...