scholarly journals Time-varying wage risk, incomplete markets, and business cycles

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 195-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuhei Takahashi
2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 990-1022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ina Simonovska ◽  
Ludvig Söderling

We investigate sources of economic fluctuations in Chile during 1998–2007 within the framework of a standard neoclassical growth model with time-varying frictions (wedges). We analyze the relative importance of efficiency, labor, investment, and government/trade wedges for business cycles in Chile. The purpose of this exercise is twofold: (i) focusing the policy discussion on the most important wedges in the economy and (ii) identifying which broad class of models would present fruitful avenues for further research. We find that different wedges have played different roles during our studied period, but that the efficiency, labor, and investment wedges have had the greatest impact. We also compare our results with existing studies on emerging and developed economies.


2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 1177-1216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Jurado ◽  
Sydney C. Ludvigson ◽  
Serena Ng

This paper exploits a data rich environment to provide direct econometric estimates of time-varying macroeconomic uncertainty. Our estimates display significant independent variations from popular uncertainty proxies, suggesting that much of the variation in the proxies is not driven by uncertainty. Quantitatively important uncertainty episodes appear far more infrequently than indicated by popular uncertainty proxies, but when they do occur, they are larger, more persistent, and are more correlated with real activity. Our estimates provide a benchmark to evaluate theories for which uncertainty shocks play a role in business cycles. (JEL C53, D81, E32, G12, G35, L25)


Author(s):  
Giovanni Cerulli ◽  
Chukiat Chaiboonsri ◽  
Satawat Wannapan
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1993 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 345-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per-Olov Edlund ◽  
Henning T. Søgaards

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