News - or foresight - about future economic fundamentals can create rational expectations equilibria with non-fundamental representations that pose substantial challenges to econometric efforts to recover the structural shocks to which economic agents react. Using tax policies as a leading...

This paper investigates financial frictions in US postwar data to understand the interaction between the real business cycle and the credit market. A Bayesian estimation technique is used to estimate a large Vector Autoregression and New Keynesian models demonstrating how financial shocks can...

An Overview of RBC models -- Dynare Foundations: solving and simulating DSGE models -- RBC model with analytical solution -- RBC model with constant labor -- RBC model with variable labor -- RBC model with shock to investment and variable use of capital -- Small Open Economy RBC -- Dynamic...