I show that a standard RBC-model can be used to explain why hours per capita decrease in response to a permanent technology shock when hours enter a vector autoregressive (VAR) in first differences and why hours increase when hours enter in levels. There are two parts to my argument. First,...

This paper uses a two country DSGE model to examine the effects of tax-based vs. expenditure-based fiscal consolidation in a currency union. We find three key results. First, given limited scope for monetary accommodation, tax-based consolidation tends to have smaller adverse effects on output...

This paper studies the trade-offs between stabilizing CPI inflation and alternative measures of the output gap in Ramses, the Riksbank׳s estimated dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model of a small open economy. Our main finding is that the trade-off between stabilizing CPI...