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Automation, Economic Growth, and the Labor Share - A Comment on Prettner (2019)

Heer, Burkhard - 2019

Prettner (2019) studies the implications of automation for economic growth and the labor share in a variant of the Solow-Swan model. The aggregate production function allows for two types of capital, traditional and automation capital. Traditional capital and labor are imperfect substitutes...

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Micro Jumps, Macro Humps : Monetary Policy and Business Cycles in an Estimated Hank Model

Auclert, Adrien - 2020

shock. Our estimated model uncovers a central role for investment in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, as high … MPCs amplify the investment response in the data. This force also generates a procyclical response of consumption to … investment shocks, leading our model to infer a central role for these shocks as a source of business cycles …

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The Supply of Hours Worked and Fluctuations Between Growth Regimes

Iong, Ka-Kit; Irmen, Andreas - 2021

Declining hours of work per worker in conjunction with a growing work force may give rise to fluctuations between growth regimes. This is shown in an overlapping generations model with two-period lived individuals endowed with Boppart-Krusell preferences (Boppart and Krusell (2020)). On the...

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Optimal Taxation of Capital in the Presence of Declining Labor Share

Ateşağaoğlu, Orhan; Yazici, Hakki - 2021

We analyze the implications of the decline in labor’s share in national income for optimal Ramsey taxation. It is optimal to accompany the decline in labor share by raising capital taxes only if the labor share is falling because of a decline in competition or other mechanisms that raise the...

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Investment Under Rational Inattention : Evidence from US Sectoral Data

Zorn, Peter - 2020

Macroeconomic and sector-specific shocks exert differential effects on investment in disaggregate sectoral data. The … monotonically. A calibrated model of investment with convex capital adjustment costs and rational inattention explains these … features of the data. The model matches the empirical responses of sectoral investment because learning about shocks generates …

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Inflation and Output Dynamics in a Model with Labor Market Search and Capital Accumulation

Heer, Burkhard; Maußner, Alfred - 2021

In a sticky-price model with labor market search and habit persistence, Walsh (2005) shows that inertia in the interest rate policy helps to reconcile the inflation and output persistence with empirical observations for the US economy. We show that this finding is sensitive with regard to the...

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Great Volatility and Great Moderation

Grazzini, Jakob - 2019

We investigate the sources of the great changes in GDP volatility observed from 1966 to 2000. We develop a general equilibrium model and calibrate it to US data in order to characterize the contribution of micro level productivity shocks, inter-sectoral linkages and households' behavior to...

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Sectoral Okun's Law and Cross-Country Cyclical Differences

Goto, Eiji - 2020

We estimate Okun's law, the negative relationship between output and the unemployment rate, at the sector level for the US, the UK, Japan, and Switzerland to test several hypotheses that may explain why the aggregate Okun's coeffcients are different across countries. Specifically, we show that...

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Quarterly GDP Estimates for the German States : New Data for Business Cycle Analyses and Long-Run Dynamics

Lehmann, Robert; Wikman, Ida - 2023

To date, only annual information on economic activity is published for the 16 German states. In this paper, we calculate quarterly regional GDP estimates for the period between 1995 to 2021, thereby improving the regional database for Germany. The new data set will regularly be updated when...

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Booms, recessions and financial turmoil : a fresh look at investment decisions under cyclical uncertainty

Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - 2009

The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief …

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