Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5059267 Economics Letters 2014 4 Pages PDF
Abstract
Consumption falls counter-factually on impact for investment-specific technology shocks, which, recent literature suggests, are important drivers of business cycles. Introducing financial frictions and variable capacity utilization to the standard New-Keynesian setup can overturn this co-movement problem, without imposing restrictions on wealth effects, or wage rigidities.
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Social Sciences and Humanities Economics, Econometrics and Finance Economics and Econometrics
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