This paper explores the business cycle in Bulgaria and the Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania during the 1993-2005 period. The paper aims at deepening the understanding of the nature of output fluctuations. The neoclassical approach will be employed, much in the spirit of the real...

We augment the standard business cycle model with cash and credit goods a la Lucas and Stokey (1983, 1987), plus a modified cash-in-advance (CIA) considerations. In particular, the cash-in-advance constraint is extended to include private investment and government purchases. This specification...