کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5086414 1375176 2006 23 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Business cycle accounting for the Japanese economy
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Business cycle accounting for the Japanese economy
چکیده انگلیسی
We conducted business cycle accounting (BCA) using the method developed by Chari, Kehoe, and McGrattan (Chari, V.V., P.J. Kehoe, E.R. McGrattan, 2002a. Accounting for the Great Depression. Am. Econ. Rev. 92 (2), 22-27) on data from the 1980s to 1990s in Japan and from the interwar period in Japan and the United States. The contribution of this paper is two-fold. First, we find that labor wedges may have been a major contributor to the decade-long recession in the 1990s in Japan. Assuming exogenous variations in the share of labor, we find that the deterioration in the labor wedge started around 1990, which coincides with the onset of the recession. Second, we performed an alternative BCA exercise using the capital wedge instead of the investment wedge to check the robustness of BCA implications for financial frictions. The accounting results with the capital wedge imply that financial frictions may have had a large depressive effect during the 1930s in the United States. This implication is the opposite of that from the original BCA findings.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Japan and the World Economy - Volume 18, Issue 4, December 2006, Pages 418-440
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