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"A defining feature of business cycles is the comovement of inputs at the sectoral level with aggregate activity. Standard models cannot account for this phenomenon. This paper develops and estimates a two-sector dynamic general equilibrium model which can account for this key regularity. My...
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"When monetary policies are endogenous, the conventional VAR approach for detecting the effect of monetary policies is powerless. This paper proposes to test the implication of monetary policies along a different dimension. That implication is to exploit the policy induced exogeneity of...
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"Price rigidity is the key mechanism for propagating business cycles in traditional Keynesian theory. Yet the New … equilibrium. We show that price rigidity in fact can (by itself) give rise to a strong propagation mechanism of the business cycle …, we show that reasonable price stickiness can generate highly persistent, hump-shaped movements in output, investment and …
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"This paper provides a simple dynamic optimization model of durable goods inventories. Closed-form solutions are derived in a general equilibrium environment with imperfect information and serially correlated shocks. The model is then applied to scrutinize some popular conjectures regarding the...
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