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A Business Cycle Model With Private Information

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  • SMITH, B.D.

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A real business cycle model is constructed in which workers are heterogeneous and privately informed about their own productive abilities. The model is structured so that interesting cycles cannot arise in the absence of their informational asymmetry. In the presence of this asymmetry, the model produces cyclical fluctuations that are consistent with features of observed business cycles. Hours behavior of individuals is also consistent with micro evidence. In addition, the model gives rise to equilibrium unemployment and labor. The determination of equilibrium unemployment rates, hours levels, and output are integrally related in the analysis. Copyright 1989 by University of Chicago Press.
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  • Smith, B.D., 1988. "A Business Cycle Model With Private Information," RCER Working Papers 150, University of Rochester - Center for Economic Research (RCER).
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    1. Joydeep Bhattacharya & Shankha Chakraborty, 2005. "What do information frictions do?," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 26(3), pages 651-675, October.
    2. Finn E. Kydland, 1993. "Business cycles and aggregate labor-market fluctuations," Working Papers (Old Series) 9312, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

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