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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827086303321

Autore

Lama Ruy

Titolo

Accounting for Output Drops in Latin America / / Ruy Lama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-3055-X

1-4518-7214-3

9786612842887

1-4519-9130-4

1-282-84288-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

49 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Business cycles - Latin America

Business forecasting - Latin America

Investments: Bonds

Macroeconomics

Economic Theory

Production and Operations Management

Labor Economics: General

Production

Cost

Capital and Total Factor Productivity

Capacity

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

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Financial Economics

Labour

income economics

Economic growth

Investment & securities

Economic theory & philosophy

Labor

Total factor productivity

Business cycles

Bonds

Financial frictions

Labor economics

Industrial productivity



Economic forecasting

Argentina

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Benchmark Small Open Economy Model -- III. Quantitative Analysis -- A. Calibration and Estimation -- B. Simulation: Accounting for Output Drops in Latin America -- IV. Sensitivity Analysis -- A. High Risk Aversion Coefficient -- B. No Adjustments Costs -- C. Variable Capital Utilization -- V. Concluding Remarks -- Appendices -- A. Benchmark Small Open Economy Model -- B. Equivalence between Wedges and Theoretical Models -- C. Data Sources -- References -- Figures -- 1. Detrended GDP per capita in Latin American Economies -- 2. TFP, Labor Wedge, Capital Wedge, and Bond Wedge -- 3. Effect of TFP on GDP -- 4. Effect of Labor Wedge on GDP -- 5. Labor Wedge, Model Prediction, and Real Interest Rate -- 6. Effect of Capital Wedge on GDP -- 7. Effect of Bond Wedge on GDP -- 8. Sensitivity Analysis -- Tables -- 1. Calibrated Parameters -- 2. Parameters of Stochastic Processes -- 3. Contributions to Output Drops -- 4. Properties of Wedges -- 5. Model Predictions.

Sommario/riassunto

This paper evaluates what type of models can account for the recent episodes of output drops in Latin America. I develop an open economy version of the business cycle accounting methodology (Chari, Kehoe, and McGrattan, 2007) in which output fluctuations are decomposed into four sources: total factor productivity (TFP), a labor wedge, a capital wedge, and a bond wedge. The paper shows that the most promising models are the ones that induce fluctuations of TFP and the labor wedge. On the other hand, models of fnancial frictions that translate into a bond or capital wedge are not successful in explaining output drops in Latin America. The paper also discusses the implications of these results for policy analysis using alternative DSGE models.