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Asymmetric Information and Employment Fluctuations

Bruegemann, Bjoern; Moscarini, Giuseppe - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

Shimer (2005) showed that a standard search and matching model of the labor market fails to generate fluctuations of … unemployment and vacancies of the magnitude observed in US data in response to shocks to average labor productivity of plausible … response of unemployment and vacancies to a shock to average labor productivity. In light of these properties, cast in terms of …

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Liquidity Shocks and the Business Cycle

Bigio, Saki - Banco Central de Reserva del Perú - 2010

This paper studies the properties of an economy subject to random liquidity shocks. As in Kiyotaki and Moore [2008], liquidity shocks affect the ease with which equity can be used as to finance the down-payment for new investment projects. We obtain a liquidity frontier which separates the...

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Welfare Costs, Long Run Consumption Risk, and a Production Economy.

Croce, Mariano M. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

The main goal of this paper is to measure the welfare costs of business cycles in a production economy in which the representative agent has low risk aversion and - at the same time - the equity premium and the co-movements of aggregate quantities and market returns are comparable to what...

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Business Cycles under Generalized Disappointment Aversion

Campanale, Claudio; Castro, Rui; Clementi, Gian Luca - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

Standard business cycle models with state-additive preferences, while broadly consistent with the behavior of real macroeconomic aggregates, are unable to generate asymmetries between expansions and recessions, and are also inconsistent with the behavior of asset prices. In this paper we exploit...

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Monetary Policy, Taxes, and the Business Cycle

Pakko, Michael R.; Gavin, William T.; Kydland, Finn E. - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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The Granular Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations

Gabaix, Xavier - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005

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