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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155013403321

Autore

Benk Szilard

Titolo

Tuning in RBC Growth Spectra / / Szilard Benk, Tamas Csabafi, Jing Dang, Max Gillman, Michal Kejak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2016

ISBN

1-4755-5685-3

1-4755-5704-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (52 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

CsabafiTamas

DangJing

GillmanMax

KejakMichal

Disciplina

338.5420973

Soggetti

Business cycles - United States

Human capital - United States

Labor

Macroeconomics

Production and Operations Management

Neoclassical

Business Fluctuations

Cycles

Trade: General

Human Capital

Skills

Occupational Choice

Labor Productivity

Production

Cost

Capital and Total Factor Productivity

Capacity

Labor Economics: General

Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Macroeconomics: Production

Labour

income economics

Economic growth

Human capital

Total factor productivity



Business cycles

Capacity utilization

Industrial productivity

Labor economics

Industrial capacity

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

For US postwar data, the paper explains central consumption, labor, investment and output correlations and volatilities along with output growth persistence by including a human capital investment sector and a variable physical capital utilization rate. Strong internal "amplication" results from an economy-wide productivity shock across goods and human capital investment sectors that has variances 10,000 fold smaller than in the standard RBC TFP shock. Simulated moments are compared to data moments for the business cycle, the low frequency and the Medium Cycle frequency, as well as the high frequency. A metric is provided to gauge that the results have an average of 46% deviation of simulated moments from data moments, for a broad array of targets across all windows. Within this array, key correlations have only a 15% deviation in the business cycle window, and growth persistence only an 8% deviation in the low frequency, which indicates good "propagation". Countercyclic human capital investment time and procyclic physical capital capacity utilization rates are also found as in data.