Countercyclical Markups and News-Driven Business Cycles

Oscar Pavlov and Mark Weder

No 2012-02, Adelaide Economics Working Papers from Adelaide University, School of Economics

Abstract: The standard one-sector real business cycle model is unable to generate expectations-driven fluctuations. The addition of countercyclical markups and modest investment adjustment costs offers an easy fix to this conundrum. The simulated model generates quantitatively realistic business cycles with news shocks accounting for over half of the variance of technology shocks.

Keywords: expectations-driven business cycles; markups (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2012-01
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