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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788518603321

Autore

Gali Garreta Jordi

Titolo

Technology Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations : : How Well Does the RBC Model Fit Postwar U.S. Data? / / Jordi Gali Garreta, Pau Rabanal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2004

ISBN

1-4623-5570-6

1-4527-4397-5

1-282-56220-7

9786613822499

1-4519-2025-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (67 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

RabanalPau

Soggetti

Business cycles - United States

Technological innovations - Economic aspects - United States

Macroeconomics

Production and Operations Management

Business Fluctuations

Cycles

Innovation

Research and Development

Technological Change

Intellectual Property Rights: General

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

Labor Economics: General

Human Capital

Skills

Occupational Choice

Labor Productivity

Price Level

Inflation

Deflation

Technology

general issues

Economic growth

Labour

income economics

Business cycles



Labor

Labor productivity

Sticky prices

Production

Prices

Labor economics

United States Economic conditions 1945-

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"December 2004."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 60-66).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. ESTIMATING THE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY SHOCKS""; ""III. POSSIBLE PITFALLS IN THE ESTIMATION OF THE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY SHOCKS""; ""IV. EXPLAINING THE EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY SHOCKS""; ""V. TECHNOLOGY SHOCKS AND THE BUSINESS CYCLE IN AN ESTIMATED DSGE MODEL""; ""VI. CONCLUSIONS""; ""VII. ADDENDUM: A RESPONSE TO ELLEN MCGRATTAN""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

Our answer: Not so well. We reached that conclusion after reviewing recent research on the role of technology as a source of economic fluctuations. The bulk of the evidence suggests a limited role for aggregate technology shocks, pointing instead to demand factors as the main force behind the strong positive comovement between output and labor input measures.