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A recent theoretical literature highlights the role of endogenous firm entry as an internal amplification mechanism of … variety effect. To this end, we estimate a medium-scale real business cycle model with firm entry for the U.S. economy. The …
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A recent theoretical literature highlights the role of endogenous firm entry as an internal amplification mechanism of … variety effect. To this end, we estimate a medium-scale real business cycle model with firm entry for the U.S. economy. The … parameter governing the competition and variety effect is estimated to be statistically significant. We find that firm entry …
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The Real Business Cycle (RBC) research program has grown specularly over the last decade, as its concepts and methods have diffused into mainstream macroeconomics. Yet, there is increasing skepticism that technology shocks are a major source of business fluctuations. This chapter exposits the...
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This chapter studies how incomplete information helps accommodate frictions in coordination, leading to novel insights on the joint determination of expectations and macroeconomic outcomes. We review and synthesize recent work on global games, beauty contests, and their applications. We...
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This chapter develops a toolkit of neoclassical macroeconomic models, and applies these models to the US economy from 1929 to 2014. We first filter macroeconomic time series into business cycle and long-run components, and show that the long-run component is typically much larger than the...
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Business cycles tend to comove across countries. However, standard models that attribute comovement to propagation of exogenous shocks struggle to generate a level of co-movement that is as high as in the data. In this paper, we consider models that produce business cycles endogenously, through...
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