On the Sources of Business Cycles: Implications for DSGE Models

Michal Andrle, Jan Bruha and Serhat Solmaz

Working Papers from Czech National Bank, Research and Statistics Department

Abstract: What are the drivers of business cycle fluctuations? And how many are there? By documenting strong and predictable co-movement of real variables during the business cycle in a sample of advanced economies, we argue that most business cycle fluctuations are driven by one major factor. The positive co-movement of real output and inflation convincingly argues for a demand story. This feature-robust across time and space-provides a simple smell test for structural macroeconomic models. We propose a simple statistic that can compare data and models. Based on this statistic, we show that the recent vintage of structural economic models has difficulties replicating the stylized facts we document.

Keywords: Business cycle; demand shocks; DSGE models; dynamic principal component analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 E32 E50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-03
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