Real business cycles in China are different than in many other countries, including consumption being more volatile than output and uncorrelated with investment. To study whether Chinese institutions can account for these features, we expand the standard real business cycle model with private...

We investigate the ability of workhorse structural change models in accounting for the business cycle properties of an economy. We consider three different preferences specifications: Herrendorf, Rogerson and Valentinyi (2014, HRV), Boppart (2014), and Comin, Lashkari and Mestieri (2021, CLM),...