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The Representative Consumer in the Neoclassical Growth Model with Idiosyncratic Shocks

Maliar, Lilia; Maliar, Serguei - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 6 (2003) 2, pp. 368-380

This paper studies a complete-market version of the neoclassical growth model, where agents face idiosyncratic shocks to eearnings. We show that if agents possess identical preferences of either the CRRA or the addilog type, then the heterogeneous-agent economy behaves as if there was a...

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A Decade Lost and Found: Mexico and Chile in the 1980s

Bergoeing, Raphael; Kehoe, Patrick J.; Kehoe, Timothy J.; … - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 5 (2002) 1, pp. 166-205

Chile and Mexico exoperienced severe economic crises in the early 1980s. This paper analyzes four possible explanations … for why Chile recovered much faster than did Mexico. Comparing data from the two countries allows us to rule out a … growth accounting, a calibrated growth model, and economic theory, we conclude that the crucial difference between the two …

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Business Cycle Uncertainty and Economic Welfare

Cho, Jang-Ok; Cooley, Thomas; Kim, Hyung Seok - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 18 (2015) 2, pp. 185-200

We study the welfare implications of uncertainty in business cycle models. In the modern business cycle literature, multiplicative real shocks to production and/or preferences play an important role as the impulses that produce aggregate fluctuations. Introducing shocks in this way has the...

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Informal Employment and Business Cycles in Emerging Economies: The Case of Mexico

Fernandez, Andres; Meza, Felipe - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 18 (2015) 2, pp. 381-405

We document how informal employment in Mexico is countercyclical, lags the cycle and is negatively correlated to formal … employment. This contributes to explaining why total employment in Mexico displays low cyclicality and variability over the … business cycle when compared to Canada, a developed economy with a much smaller share of informal employment. To account for …

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Labor's Share Fluctuations, Biased Technical Change, and the Business Cycle

Young, Andrew - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 7 (2004) 4, pp. 916-931

We extend the basic RBC model to allow for biased technical changes. One broad definition of biased technical changes is changes that directly affect factor elasticities. Given the link between changes in factor elasticities and factor shares, observed fluctuations in US labor's share are...

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Hecksher-Ohlin Business Cycles

Cunat, Alejandro; Maffezzoli, Marco - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 7 (2004) 3, pp. 555-585

This paper introduces Heckscher-Ohlin trade features into a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model, and studies the international transmission of productivity shocks through trade in goods. This framework improves upon existing international real business cycle models in that...

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Labor Market Cycles, Unemployment Insurance Eligibility, and Moral Hazard

Faig, Miquel; Zhang, Min - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 15 (2012) 1, pp. 41-56

If entitlement to UI benefits must be earned with employment, generous UI is an additional benefit to working, so, by … effect of UI on employment decisions. As with Ricardian Equivalence, this result should be useful to pinpoint the effects of …

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Investment Shocks and the Relative Price of Investment

Justiniano, Alejandro; Primiceri, Giorgio; Tambalotti, … - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 14 (2011) 1, pp. 101-121

played a particularly important role in the recession of 2008-09. (Copyright: Elsevier) …

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Nominal Wage Contracts, Labor Adjustment Costs and the Business Cycle

Janko, Zuzana - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 11 (2008) 2, pp. 434-448

Previous work of monetary dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models with nominal rigidity a la Taylor, particularly the Cho-Cooley model, was abandoned in favor of the New-Keynesian analysis due to the model's failure to deliver business cycle statistics that match the U.S. economy along...

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Delivering Endogenous Inertia in Prices and Output

Johri, Alok - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 12 (2009) 4, pp. 736-754

This paper presents a DGE model in which aggregate price level inertia is generated endogenously by the optimizing behaviour of price-setting firms. All the usual sources of inertia are absent here ie., all firms are simultaneously free to change their price once every period and face no...

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