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| Title: | | Investment shocks and business cycles  |
| Authors: | | Justiniano, Alejandro Primiceri, Giorgio E. Tambalotti, Andrea |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Staff Report, Federal Reserve Bank of New York 322 |
| Abstract: | | Shocks to the marginal efficiency of investment are the most important drivers of business cycle fluctuations in U.S. output and hours. Moreover, like a textbook demand shock, these disturbances drive prices higher in expansions. We reach these conclusions by estimating a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model with several shocks and frictions. We also find that neutral technology shocks are not negligible, but their share in the variance of output is only around 25 percent and even lower for hours. Labor supply shocks explain a large fraction of the variation of hours at very low frequencies, but not over the business cycle. Finally, we show that imperfect competition and, to a lesser extent, technological frictions are the key to the transmission of investment shocks in the model. |
| Subjects: | | DSGE model imperfect competition endogenous markups Bayesian methods |
| JEL: | | C11 E22 E30 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Staff Reports, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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