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Testing for the Lucas Critique: A Quantitative Investigation

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  • Lindé, Jesper

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    (Research Department, Central Bank of Sweden)

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In this paper, I try to shed some new light on the "puzzle" why the Lucas critique, belived to be important by most economists, seems to have received very little empirical support. I use a real business cycle model to examine the properties of the super exogeneity test, which is used to detect the applicability of the Lucas critique in practice. The results suggest that the super exogeneity test is not capable of detecting the relevance of Lucas critique in practice in small samples.

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Length: 43 pages
Date of creation: 01 Nov 2000
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Publication status: Published in American Economic Review, 2001, pages 986-1005.
Handle: RePEc:hhs:rbnkwp:0113
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Keywords: Lucas critique; Real business cycle model; Super exogeneity test; Taylor rules; Money demand; Consumption function;

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  • E41 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Demand for Money

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