Business Cycle Accounting for the COVID-19 Recession

Daniel Fernandes

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: We apply the Business Cycle Accounting framework to the COVID-19 recession in the Euro Area and the United States. We conclude that the efficiency wedge had the most important role in the Euro Area, followed by the labor and investment wedges. In the United States, the labor wedge was most crucial, with the investment wedge taking a second place. We present hypotheses, supported by our theoretical framework, for the dichotomy of the role of the efficiency wedge between the studied regions.

Keywords: Economics; COVID-19; Business; Cycle; Accounting; Macroeconomics; Financial; Crises; Financial; Frictions; Wedges (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E3 E32 F4 F44 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-01-17
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