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No More Rocking Horses: Trading Business-Cycle Depth for Duration Using an Economy-Specific Characteristic

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Ossama Mikhail

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Regarding the trade-off between the depth and the duration of recessions, there exists a mounting empirical evidence of the idiosyncratic and non-synchronized behavior of the business cycle over time within and across countries. In this paper, I propose a stochastic dynamic general equilibrium formulation wherein an economy-specific characteristic - labeled as the missing parameter - (e.g., the financial institutional framework and regulations) does control the magnitude, severity and persistence of the business cycle. The results of the simulations show that as much as 0.5 of a percentage point of GDP in depth and a relative difference of 3 years duration can be attributed to this parameter. Overlooked for decades, this missing parameter hypothesizes that Frisch's 'rocking-horse theory' of the business cycle is an inaccurate description of the business-cycle behavior.

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Keywords: Business Cycle; Depth; Duration; Frisch's Rocking-Horse Theory; Economic Institutions; Real Business Cycles.;

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B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration
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P16 - Economic Systems - - Capitalist Systems - - - Political Economy of Capitalism

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