Endogenous Business Cycles and the Dynamics of Output, Hours, and Consumption
- (pp. 1136-1159)
Abstract
This paper studies the business-cycle fluctuations predicted by a two-sector endogenous-business-cycle model with sector-specific external increasing returns to scale. It focuses on aspects of actual fluctuations that have been identified both as defining features of business cycles and as ones standard real-business-cycle models cannot explain. For empirically realistic calibrations of the degree of returns to scale, the results suggest that endogenous fluctuations do not provide the dynamic element that is missing in existing real-business-cycle models.Citation
Schmitt-Grohe, Stephanie. 2000. "Endogenous Business Cycles and the Dynamics of Output, Hours, and Consumption." American Economic Review, 90 (5): 1136-1159. DOI: 10.1257/aer.90.5.1136JEL Classification
- E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles
- E23 Macroeconomics: Production
- E24 Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital