Angeletos, George-Marios, Collard, Fabrice and Dellas, Harris (2020) Business cycle anatomy. American Economic Review (AER), vol. 110 (n° 10). pp. 3030-70.

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Identification Number : 10.1257/aer.20181174

Abstract

We propose a new strategy for dissecting the macroeconomic time series, provide a template for the propagation mechanism that best describes the observed business cycles, and use its properties to appraise models of both the parsimonious and the medium-scale variety. Our findings support the existence of a main business-cycle driver but rule out the following candidates for this role: technology or other shocks that map to TFP movements; news about future productivity; and inflationary demand shocks of the textbook type. Prominent members of the DSGE literature also lack the propagation mechanism seen in our anatomy of the data. Models that aim at accommodating demanddriven cycles under flexible prices appear promising.

Item Type: Article
Language: English
Date: 2020
Refereed: Yes
JEL Classification: C22 - Time-Series Models
E10 - General
E32 - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 17 Jun 2020 08:11
Last Modified: 16 Jul 2021 08:37
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:124375
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/35057

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