This paper analyzes the contribution of anticipated capital and labor tax shocks to business cycle volatility in an estimated New Keynesian DSGE model. While fiscal policy accounts for 12 to 20 percent of output variance at business cycle frequencies, the anticipated component hardly matters for...

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Pablo A. Guerrón-Quintana, Juan F. Rubio-Ramírez and Martín Uribe (2011) find that risk shocks are an important factor in explaining emerging market business cycles. We show that their model needs to be recalibrated because it underpredicts the targeted business...

Has heightened uncertainty been a major contributor to the Great Recession and the slow recovery in the U.S.? To answer this question, we identify exogenous changes in six uncertainty proxies and quantify their contributions to GDP growth and the unemployment rate. Our results are threefold....

Im Sommerhalbjahr wird die deutsche Konjunktur voraussichtlich eine Schwächephase durchlaufen. Darauf deutet das ifo Geschäftsklima hin, das sich im Mai und Juni merklich eingetrübt hat. Maßgeblich dafür ist die anhaltende Unsicherheit über den Fortgang der europäischen Schuldenkrise. Im...