Business cycles with a common trend in neutral and investment-specific productivity
By: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Martín Uribe
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16071; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16071.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper identifies a new source of business-cycle fluctuations.  Namely, a common stochastic trend in neutral and investment-specific productivity.  We document that in U.S.  postwar quarterly data total factor productivity (TFP) and the relative price of investment are cointegrated.  We show theoretically that TFP and the relative price of investment are cointegrated if and only if neutral and investment-specific productivity share a common stochastic trend.  We econometrically estimate an RBC model augmented with a number of real rigidities and driven by a multitude of shocks.  We find that in the context of our estimated model, innovations in the common stochastic trend explain a sizable fraction of the unconditional variances of output, consumption, investment, and hours"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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