Determinants of Business Cycles in Small Scale Macroeconomic Models: The German Case

Alfred Maussner () and Julius Spatz

No 1158, Kiel Working Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

Abstract: We identify measures of shocks to total factor productivity and preferences from two real business cycle models and subject them to Granger causality tests to see whether they can be considered exogenous to other plausible sources of the German business cycle. For the period 60.i to 89.iv no variable Granger causes the shock measures, and for the period 70.i to 01.iv, only M3 does. We attribute the latter result to the breaks in our time series associated with the German reunification in 1990 and the European Monetary Union in 1999. We, thus, find no evidence to reject the exogeneity of our shock measures. Our findings contrast with similar studies for other countries that question the exogeneity of either productivity or preference shocks.

Keywords: Real Business Cycles; Solow Residual; Granger Causality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 O47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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Journal Article: Determinants of business cycles in small scale macroeconomic models: the German case (2006)
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