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solution -- RBC model with constant labor -- RBC model with variable labor -- RBC model with shock to investment and variable …
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Combining micro and macro data, we construct demand-side shocks, which we take to be exogenous for individual firms. We estimate a reduced-form model to describe how firms adjust their production, employment, capital stock, and inventories in response to such shocks. Then, we chose the...
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investment-specific productivity. We document that in U.S. postwar quarterly data total factor productivity (TFP) and the … relative price of investment are cointegrated. We show theoretically that TFP and the relative price of investment are … cointegrated if and only if neutral and investment-specific productivity share a common stochastic trend. We econometrically …
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equipment-goods sectors are cointegrated if and only if the aggregate neutral productivity and the investment … common stochastic trend of sectoral productivities in explaining the movements of investment-specific technology as well as … those of interesting macroeconomic aggregates such as output, consumption, investment and hours worked. For this end, I …
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Is time-varying firm-level uncertainty a major cause or amplifier of the business cycle? This paper investigates this question in the context of a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital adjustment, where cyclical changes in uncertainty...
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-level investment is procyclical. We show that a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with quantitatively realistic countercyclically disperse … state investment rate distribution, produces investment dispersion that positively comoves with the cycle, with a …
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This paper explores the importance of investment-specific technology changes in anticipated TFP fluctuations. To this … shocks to the relative price of investment. We show in a model with IST diffusion and spillover that the correlation of these …
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-varying uncertainty, highlighted in the literature. -- Ss model ; RBC model ; lumpy investment ; countercyclical risk ; aggregate shocks …
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