Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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966519 | Journal of Monetary Economics | 2013 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
Business cycles in emerging economies display very volatile consumption and strongly countercyclical trade balance. We show that aggregate consumption in these economies is not more volatile than output once durables are accounted for. Then, we present and estimate a real business cycles model for a small open economy that accounts for this empirical observation. Our results show that the role of permanent shocks to aggregate productivity in explaining cyclical fluctuations in emerging economies is considerably lower than previously documented. Moreover, we find that financial frictions are crucial to explain some key business cycle properties of these economies.
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Authors
Fernando Álvarez-Parra, Luis Brandao-Marques, Manuel Toledo,