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This paper studies the business cycle in Germany using the HP-filter (Hodrick/Prescott (1997)) to isolate the cyclical component. A two-country International Business Cycle model in line with Baxter/Crucini (1995) is built to explain these facts. The combination of GHH-preferences with taste...
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This paper investigates the properties of an international real business cycle model with household production. We show that a model with disturbances to both market and household technologies reproduces the main regularities of the data and improves existing models in matching international...
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This paper studies the role of the German economy for the existence of the so called European business cycle, a term referring to the regularly observed synchronization of the national business cycles in Europe. Using a three-country general equilibrium model, we are able to simulate impulse...
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This paper investigates the properties of an international real business cycle model with household production. We show that a model with disturbances to both market and household technologies reproduces the main regularities of the data and improves existing models in matching international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061177
The paper extends a standard two-country international real business cycle model to include financial intermediation by banks of loans and government bonds. Taking in household deposits from home and abroad, the loans are produced by the bank in a Cobb-Douglas production approach such that a...
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**The following is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract.** Why are business cycles statistics so different from one country to the other, at least for trade related variables? This paper tries to replicate this feature of the data in an international real business cycle model...
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This paper provides a theory of the international business cycle grounded on firms' entry and sticky prices. It shows that under simple monetary rules pro-cyclical entry and counter-cyclical markups can generate fluctuations in macroeconomic aggregates and trade variables as large as those...
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volatility (relative to output volatility) are lower, while the volatility of productivity and wages are 2-3 times higher in EMEs … countries, but the model with investment adjustment cost improves the performance of relative volatility of wages and hours, as … labour wedge and find that the total labour wedge (relative to output volatility) is more volatile over the business cycle in …
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. -- Business cycle ; Developing economies ; Stylised facts ; Volatility ; Persistence Cross-correlations …
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