Why has the cyclicality of productivity changed? What does it mean?

JG Fernald, JC Wang - Annual Review of Economics, 2016 - annualreviews.org
US labor and total factor productivity have historically been procyclical—rising in booms and
falling in recessions. After the mid-1980s, however, total factor productivity became much …

[图书][B] Macroeconomic theory

W Michael - 2008 - diglib.globalcollege.edu.et
No subject with a foot in both the academic and public domains like macroeconomics
remains unchanged for long. The search for improved explanations, and the challenge of …

An estimated dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of the euro area

F Smets, R Wouters - Journal of the European economic …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
This paper develops and estimates a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model
with sticky prices and wages for the euro area. The model incorporates various other …

How has the monetary transmission mechanism evolved over time?

J Boivin, MT Kiley, FS Mishkin - Handbook of monetary economics, 2010 - Elsevier
We discuss the evolution in macroeconomic thought on the monetary policy transmission
mechanism and present related empirical evidence. The core channels of policy …

Are technology improvements contractionary?

S Basu, JG Fernald, MS Kimball - American Economic Review, 2006 - aeaweb.org
Yes. We construct a measure of aggregate technology change, controlling for aggregation
effects, varying utilization of capital and labor, nonconstant returns, and imperfect …

The dynamic effects of neutral and investment-specific technology shocks

JDM Fisher - Journal of political Economy, 2006 - journals.uchicago.edu
The neoclassical growth model is used to identify the short-run effects of neutral technology
shocks, which affect the production of all goods homogeneously, and investment-specific …

[图书][B] An agenda for a growing Europe: The Sapir report

A Sapir, P Aghion, G Bertola, M Hellwig, J Pisani-Ferry… - 2004 - books.google.com
Over the past decade European economic integration has seen considerable institutional
success, but the economic performance of the EU has been varied. While macroeconomic …

On the empirical (ir) relevance of the zero lower bound constraint

D Debortoli, J Galí, L Gambetti - NBER Macroeconomics …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
We evaluate the hypothesis that the zero lower bound (ZLB) constraint was, in practice,
irrelevant during the recent ZLB episode experienced by the US economy (the 2009Q1 …

[图书][B] Macroeconomic theory: a dynamic general equilibrium approach

M Wickens - 2011 - books.google.com
Macroeconomic Theory is the most up-to-date graduate-level macroeconomics textbook
available today. This revised second edition emphasizes the general equilibrium character …

Firm-specific capital, nominal rigidities and the business cycle

D Altig, LJ Christiano, M Eichenbaum… - Review of Economic …, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper formulates and estimates a three-shock US business cycle model. The estimated
model accounts for a substantial fraction of the cyclical variation in output and is consistent …