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We review evidence on the Great Moderation together with evidence about volatility trends at the micro level to develop a potential explanation for the decline in aggregate volatility since the 1980s and its consequences. The key elements are declines in firm-level volatility and aggregate...
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are constructed. These measures, which attribute high-frequency productivity shocks to procyclical work effort, are more …
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The acceleration of productivity since 1995 has prompted a debate over whether the economy's underlying growth rate … identify variables other than productivity - namely consumption and labor compensation - to help estimate trend productivity … direction. In addition, we find that productivity data alone provide insufficient evidence of regime changes; corroborating …
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productivity growth in the nonhousing sector and shows that such regime switches are a plausible candidate for explaining - both … governs the relationship between productivity growth and home price appreciation. Combined with a realistic model of learning … about the productivity process, the model is able to capture the medium- and low-frequency fluctuations of both price and …
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