Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/83727 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers No. 2008-05
Publisher: 
Banco de México, Ciudad de México
Abstract (Translated): 
During the last years, Mexico has registered relatively large output falls. The business cycle accounting method of Chari, Kehoe and McGrattan (2007) is applied to the two most recent recessions in Mexico (including the 'Tequila crisis') in order to understand what are the most important wedges driving output over the cycle and to evaluate to what extent such falls may be smoothed. First, it is found that efficiency and labor wedges may reasonably account for output fluctuations in each recession. Second, counterfactual exercises suggest that the elimination of distortions represented in terms of the efficiency wedge might result in output falls about one third of those observed in the data.
Subjects: 
Business cycle accounting
Tequila crisis
Total factor productivity
Mexico
JEL: 
E32
O41
O54
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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