Francis, Neville; Jackson, Laura E.; Owyang, Michael T. - Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis - 2013
The nature of the business cycle appears to have changed. Prior to the 1990s, recoveries from recessions were quick and … steep; after the past three recessions, however, recoveries were weak and prolonged. We consider the effect of a number of … countercyclical policies intended to shorten recessions and speed recoveries. Our innovation is to analyze the duration of the …