The (Ir)Relevance of Rule-of-Thumb Consumers for U.S. Business Cycle Fluctuations

Alice Albonico, Guido Ascari and Qazi Haque

No 20-26, Economics Discussion / Working Papers from The University of Western Australia, Department of Economics

Abstract: We estimate a medium-scale model with and without rule-of-thumb consumers over the pre-Volcker and the Great Moderation periods, allowing for indeterminacy. Passive monetary policy and sunspot fluctuations characterize the pre-Volcker period for both models. The estimated fraction of rule-of-thumb consumers is low, such that the models are empirically almost equivalent. In both subsamples, the two models yield very similar impulse response functions, variance and historical decompositions. We conclude that rule-of-thumb consumers are irrelevant to explain aggregate U.S. business cycle fluctuations.

Keywords: rule-of-thumb consumers; indeterminacy; business cycle áuctuations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 C13 E32 E52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38
Date: 2020
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