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Intertemporal disturbances

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  • Giorgio Primiceri

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    (Economics Northwestern University)

  • Ernst Schaumburg
  • Andrea Tambalotti

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Disturbances affecting agents' intertemporal substitution are the key driving force of macroeconomic fluctuations. We reach this conclusion exploiting the asset pricing implications of an estimated general equilibrium model of the U.S. business cycle with a rich set of real and nominal frictions

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Paper provided by Society for Economic Dynamics in its series 2006 Meeting Papers with number 355.

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Date of creation: 03 Dec 2006
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Keywords: Business Cycle; Fluctuations; Euler equation; shocks; frictions;

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  • E30 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)

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