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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970782303321

Autore

Lama Ruy

Titolo

Accounting for Output Drops in Latin America / / Ruy Lama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

9786612842887

9781462330553

146233055X

9781451872149

1451872143

9781451991307

1451991304

9781282842885

1282842889

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

49 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Business cycles - Latin America

Business forecasting - Latin America

Bonds

Business cycles

Capacity

Capital and Total Factor Productivity

Cost

Economic forecasting

Economic growth

Economic theory & philosophy

Economic Theory

Financial Economics

Financial frictions

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Income economics

Industrial productivity

Investment & securities

Investments: Bonds

Labor economics

Labor Economics: General

Labor

Labour

Macroeconomics



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

Production and Operations Management

Production

Total factor productivity

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.