Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5098257 | Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control | 2015 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
What drives aggregate fluctuations? I test the granular hypothesis - according to which the largest firms in the economy drive aggregate dynamics - by estimating a dynamic factor model with firm-level data. The growth rate of a firm׳s sales is decomposed in an unobserved common macroeconomic component and in a residual that I interpret as an idiosyncratic firm-level component. The empirical results show that, after properly controlling for aggregate shocks, idiosyncratic shocks have little role in explaining U.S. business cycle fluctuations.
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Authors
Andrea Stella,