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Financial Frictions, Aggregation, and the Lucas Critique

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  • Sun-Bin Kim

    (Yonsei University)

  • Frank Schorfheide

    (U of Pennsyvania)

  • Yongsung Chang

    (U of Rochester and Yonsei)

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agent model; (ii) taste and technology parameters in the DSGE model are not policy invariant; (iii) fiscal policy predictions from the DSGE model are inaccurate.

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  • Sun-Bin Kim & Frank Schorfheide & Yongsung Chang, 2010. "Financial Frictions, Aggregation, and the Lucas Critique," 2010 Meeting Papers 31, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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