Delayed Adjustment and Persistence in Macroeconomic Models

Thijs van Rens and Marija Vukotić

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2023, vol. 55, issue 6, 1325-1356

Abstract: Estimated impulse responses of investment and hiring typically peak well after the impact of a shock. Standard models with adjustment costs in capital and labor do not exhibit such delayed adjustment, but we argue that it arises naturally when we relax the assumption that the production technology is separable over time. This result, which holds for both convex and nonconvex cost functions, is strong enough to match the persistence observed in the data for reasonable parameter values. We discuss some evidence for our explanation and ways to test it.

Date: 2023
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