Papers Flashcards
Lucas (1987) evaluation
We should care much more about growth than business cycles
Criticisms of HP filter
Nelson and Kang (1981) - spurious cycles
James D Hamilton - regress on past 4 values instead
Alternative is Baxter-King filter (1999)
King and Rebelo (1999)
Business cycle statistics
Kaldor (1957)
long-term growth facts
Hall (1978)
Utility well approximated by quadratic
consumption changes should be unpredictable (by income but is by stock market prices)
Ways to generate AK framework
Harrod (1939) Domar (1946)
Frankel (1962) - knowledge externalises
Arrow (1962) - learning by doing
Lucas (1988) - human capital
Uses of AK
King and Rebelo (1991) - fiscal policy on growth
Jones, Manuelli and Stachetti (1999) - macro volatility on growth
Acemogu and Ventura (2003) - terms of trade on growth
Jones and Manuelli (2005) - Handbook survey
King, Plosser and Rebelo (1988)
characterise set of utility functions which admit a balanced growth path
Greenwood, Hercowitz and Huffman (1988)
Labour choice affects utility from consumption
But no wealth effect
Not consistent with BGP
Barro and King (1984)
Cons and labour both only procyclical if wage is procyclical
Brock- Mirman Economy
log utility, 100% depreciation
Campbell calibration
estimate parameters from the data and vary a couple
not beyesian
Blanchard-Kahn approach
Matrix solving non indeterminant system of equations
Who showed aggregate-wage cyclicality underestimates individual wage cyclicality
Barsky, Solon and Parker
Implicit contracts where observed per-period wages are not allocative
Barro idea
Hall 2006 recent empirical application
Hansen indivisible Labour Model
lottery labour market