Introducing financial frictions and unemployment into a small open economy model

Lawrence Christiano, Mathias Trabandt and Karl Walentin

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2011, vol. 35, issue 12, 1999-2041

Abstract: Which are the main frictions and the driving forces of business cycle dynamics in an open economy? To answer this question we extend the standard new Keynesian model in three dimensions: we incorporate financing frictions for capital, employment frictions for labor and extend the model into a small open economy setting. We estimate the model on Swedish data. Our main results are that (i) a financial shock is pivotal for explaining fluctuations in investment and GDP. (ii) The marginal efficiency of investment shock has negligible importance. (iii) The labor supply shock is unimportant in explaining GDP and no high frequency wage markup shock is needed.

Keywords: DSGE model; Financial frictions; Employment frictions; Small open economy; Bayesian estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E0 E3 F0 F4 G0 G1 J6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Working Paper: Introducing Financial Frictions and Unemployment into a Small Open Economy Model (2011)
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Working Paper: Introducing Financial Frictions and Unemployment into a Small Open Economy Model (2008)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2011.09.005

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