scholarly journals Habit Persistence, Asset Returns, and the Business Cycle

2001 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Boldrin ◽  
Lawrence J Christiano ◽  
Jonas D. M Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycle ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Substantial Improvement ◽  
Output Growth ◽  
Habit Persistence ◽  
Business Cycle Model ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
Risk Free Rate ◽  
Mean Risk ◽  
Free Rate

Two modifications are introduced into the standard real-business-cycle model: habit preferences and a two-sector technology with limited intersectoral factor mobility. The model is consistent with the observed mean risk-free rate, equity premium, and Sharpe ratio on equity. In addition, its business-cycle implications represent a substantial improvement over the standard model. It accounts for persistence in output, comovement of employment across different sectors over the business cycle, the evidence of “excess sensitivity” of consumption growth to output growth, and the “inverted leading-indicator property of interest rates,” that interest rates are negatively correlated with future output. (JEL D10, E10, E20, G12)

THE SPIRIT OF CAPITALISM, ASSET RETURNS, AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTIN BOILEAU ◽  
REBECCA BRAEU
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycle ◽  
Equity Premium ◽  
Asset Return ◽  
Spirit Of Capitalism ◽  
Business Cycle Model ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
Premium Puzzle ◽  
Risk Free Rate ◽  
Free Rate ◽  
Real Business Cycle Model

We evaluate whether the spirit of capitalism improves the ability of the real business cycle model to explain the main features of both asset return and the business cycle. In our model, the spirit of capitalism is embodied in the assumption that individuals have preferences for financial wealth. Our simulation results suggest that this assumption may improve the model's ability to explain the risk-free rate puzzle but not the equity premium puzzle. This assumption also markedly deteriorates the model's ability to account for the main features of the business cycle.

BUSINESS CYCLE AND OPTIMAL TIMING FOR INVESTMENT

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-41
Author(s):  
Joseph Cheng ◽  
Jeffery Lippitt
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Risk Ratio ◽  
Equity Capital ◽  
Optimal Timing ◽  
Expected Return ◽  
Gdp Growth Rate ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
Risk Free Rate ◽  
Free Rate

The objective of this paper is to determine which point of the business cycle offers investors the best reward to risk ratio in the stock market.  Expected reward is defined as expected return in excess of the risk free rate, whereas risk is defined as the standard deviation of return.  Thus, the expected reward to risk ratio is measured by expected return in excess of risk free rate relative to the standard deviation of return.  Expected return in excess of the risk free rate and standard deviation of return are generated on a continuum of time periods and the GDP growth rate.  The point where the expected reward to risk ratio peaks, would signify the best time for investment.  Being able to identify this point could help investors in deciding the best time to invest as well as help firms in choosing a favorable time for raising equity capital.  While most people think that the best time to invest is near the bottom, it is not clear whether the best time for investing is before, at, or after the economic trough.  The interesting finding in our model is that the best time is after the point of the economic trough.

scholarly journals Cyclical Fluctuation, Growth, and Stabilization: An Empirical Investigation of Dual Policy Objectives in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richmond Sam Quarm ◽  
Mohamed Osman Elamin Busharads
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Money Supply ◽  
Macroeconomic Policy ◽  
Output Growth ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
The Business Cycle

In conventional economics, two types of macroeconomic policy i.e. fiscal policy and monetary policy are used to streamline the business cycle. This paper has examined the cyclical behavior of these variables over the business cycle of Bangladesh. The objective of this examination is to show whether policies (fiscal policy and monetary policy) in Bangladesh are taken with a motive to stabilize the economy or only to promote economic growth. In other words, it has examined whether the policies in Bangladesh are procyclical or countercyclical or acyclical. Hodrick Prescott (HP) filter has been used to separate the cyclical component of considered variables. Both correlation and regression-based analysis have provided that in Bangladesh government expenditure and interest rates behave procyclically, but money supply behaves acyclically over the business cycle. Besides, this paper has tried to identify the long-term as well as the short-term relationship between real GDP and the macroeconomic policy variables with the help of the Johansen cointegration test, vector error correction model (VECM), and block exogeneity Wald test. Through these analyses, this study has found that fiscal policy has a significant impact on GDP growth both in the short-run and long-run. In the case of monetary policy, although the interest rate has an impact on real output both in the short-run and long-run, the money supply has neither a short-run nor long-run effect on output growth.

scholarly journals Cyclical Fluctuation, Growth, and Stabilization: An Empirical Investigation of Dual Policy Objectives in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sakil Ahmmed ◽  
◽  
Jonaed Jonaed
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Fiscal Policy ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Money Supply ◽  
Macroeconomic Policy ◽  
Output Growth ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Short Run ◽  
The Business Cycle

In conventional economics, two types of macroeconomic policy i.e. fiscal policy and monetary policy are used to streamline the business cycle. This paper has examined the cyclical behavior of these variables over the business cycle of Bangladesh. The objective of this examination is to show whether policies (fiscal policy and monetary policy) in Bangladesh are taken with a motive to stabilize the economy or only to promote economic growth. In other words, it has examined whether the policies in Bangladesh are procyclical or countercyclical or acyclical. Hodrick Prescott (HP) filter has been used to separate the cyclical component of considered variables. Both correlation and regression-based analysis have provided that in Bangladesh government expenditure and interest rates behave procyclically, but money supply behaves acyclically over the business cycle. Besides, this paper has tried to identify the long-term as well as the short-term relationship between real GDP and the macroeconomic policy variables with the help of the Johansen cointegration test, vector error correction model (VECM), and block exogeneity Wald test. Through these analyses, this study has found that fiscal policy has a significant impact on GDP growth both in the short-run and long-run. In the case of monetary policy, although the interest rate has an impact on real output both in the short-run and long-run, the money supply has neither a short-run nor long-run effect on output growth.

scholarly journals Journal of the History of Economic Thought Preprints - Limits to Arbitrage and Interest Rates: A Debate Between Keynes, Hawtrey and Hicks

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy BRILLANT
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycle ◽  
Central Bank ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
History Of Economic Thought ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Limits To Arbitrage ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Business Cycle

This paper deals with a debate between Hawtrey, Hicks and Keynes concerning the capacity of the central bank to influence the short-term and the long-term rates of interest. Both Hawtrey and Keynes considered the central bank’s ability to influence short-term rates of interest. However, they do not put the same emphasis on the study of the long-term rates of interest. According to Keynes, long-term rates are influenced by future expected short-term rates (1930, 1936), whereas for Hawtrey (1932, 1937, 1938), long-term rates are more dependent on the business cycle. Short-term rates do not have much effect on long-term rates according to Hawtrey. In 1939, Hicks enters the controversy, giving credit to both Hawtrey’s and Keynes’s theories, and also introducing limits to the operations of arbitrage. He thus presented a nuanced view.

scholarly journals CONNECTING THEORY AND EMPIRICS FOR ANIMAL SPIRITS, RETURNS AND INTEREST RATES: A CLARIFICATION OF “RISK-FREE RATES AND ANIMAL SPIRITS IN FINANCIAL MARKETS”

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 1750002 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUKKA ILOMÄKI
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Expected Returns ◽  
Animal Spirits ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Upper Limit ◽  
Risk Free Rate ◽  
Free Rate

I clarify and combine the results of Ilomäki (2016a) and Ilomäki (2016b) and find several interesting conclusions. First, the effect of the animal spirits component to the expected returns of investors depends on the risk-free rate. Second, there must be an upper limit for the risk-free rate, where the component that reduces the expected returns of informed investors in Ilomäki (2016a) disappears. Third, the empirical results of Ilomäki (2016b) indicates that the break-even level is as low as 3%.

A Long View of the UK Business Cycle

2002 ◽  
Vol 182 ◽  
pp. 72-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jagjit S. Chadha ◽  
Charles Nolan
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycle ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Nominal Interest Rates ◽  
Short Run ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
The Uk ◽  
External Sector

We outline a number of ‘stylised’ facts on the UK business cycle obtained from analysis of the long-run UK annual dataset. The findings are to some extent standard. Consumption and investment are pro-cyclical, with productivity playing a dominant role in explaining business cycle fluctuations at all horizons. Money neutrality obtains over the long run but there is clear evidence of non-neutrality over the short run, particularly at the business cycle frequencies. Business cycle relationships with the external sector via the real exchange rate and current account are notable. Postwar, the price level is counter-cyclical and real wages are pro-cyclical, as are nominal interest rates. Modern general equilibrium macroeconomic models capture many of these patterns.

scholarly journals Stability and Bifurcation of a Delayed Time-Fractional Order Business Cycle Model with a General Liquidity Preference Function and Investment Function

Mathematics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (9) ◽  
pp. 846 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yingkang Xie ◽  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Bo Meng
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycle ◽  
Fractional Order ◽  
Preference Function ◽  
Positive Equilibrium ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Investment Function ◽  
Business Cycle Model ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
Positive Equilibrium Point ◽  
Delayed Time

In this paper, the business cycle (BC) is described by a delayed time-fractional-order model (DTFOM) with a general liquidity preference function and an investment function. Firstly, the existence and uniqueness of the DTFOM solution are proven. Then, some conditions are presented to guarantee that the positive equilibrium point of DTFOM is locally stable. In addition, Hopf bifurcation is obtained by a new method, where the time delay is regarded as the bifurcation parameter. Finally, a numerical example of DTFOM is given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed model and methods.

scholarly journals Investment Dispersion and the Business Cycle

2014 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 1392-1416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rüdiger Bachmann ◽  
Christian Bayer
Keyword(s):  
Business Cycle ◽  
Adjustment Costs ◽  
Firm Risk ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Capital Adjustment ◽  
Investment Rates ◽  
Business Cycle Model ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
Heterogeneous Firm

The cross-sectional dispersion of firm-level investment rates is procyclical. This makes investment rates different from productivity, output, and employment growth, which have countercyclical dispersions. A calibrated heterogeneous-firm business cycle model with nonconvex capital adjustment costs and countercyclical dispersion of firm-level productivity shocks replicates these facts and produces a correlation between investment dispersion and aggregate output of 0.53, close to 0.45 in the data. We find that small shocks to the dispersion of productivity, which in the model constitutes firm risk, suffice to generate the mildly procyclical investment dispersion in the data but do not produce serious business cycles. (JEL D42, D92, E32, G31, G32)

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