We estimate a New-Neoclassical Synthesis model of the business cycle with two investment shocks. The first, an … investment-specific technology shock, affects the transformation of consumption into investment goods and is identified with the … relative price of investment. The second shock affects the production of installed capital from investment goods or, more …

-open-economy real-business-cycle model driven by nonstationary productivity shocks. We find that the RBC model does a poor job at … business cycles in emerging markets and, importantly, assigns a negligible role to nonstationary productivity shocks …

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 … productivity of the rest of the economy …