We investigate the sources of the great changes in GDP volatility observed from 1966 to 2000. We develop a general …-sectoral linkages and households' behavior to aggregate volatility. Our results show that changes in sectoral volatility played an … important role in shaping volatility at the aggregate level. Moreover, asymmetries in the economic structure sometimes had an …

. We find that the business cycle dynamics in the OLG model in response to both a technology shock and a monetary shock are … hours in the OLG model decrease in response to a positive technological shock, since for young workers the income effect …

financial institutions in the transmission of credit and technology shocks to the real economy. A positive credit shock, defined … between loan and deposit rates. The effects of the credit shock tend to be highly persistent even without price rigidities and …

as large as those arising from an aggregate productivity shock. Heterogeneous price rigidity amplifies the aggregate …

This paper studies dynamics of endogenous business cycles and exchange rate volatility in a small open economy. Without … exhibit a higher volatility than other prices. The numerical analysis shows examples which confirm the typical empirically … observed high volatility of nominal exchange rates compared with that of real/domestic variables. …

applications where market expectations play a key role for evaluating economic models, guiding policy analysis, and deriving shock …

This paper presents a dynamic theory of housing market fluctuations. It develops a life-cycle model where households …