Bachmann, Ruediger; Engel, Eduardo; Caballero, Ricardo - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
Microeconomic lumpiness matters for macroeconomics. According to our DSGE model, it is responsible for 92 percent of the smoothing in the investment response to aggregate shocks, and it introduces important nonlinearities and history dependance in business cycles and policy sensitivity. General...