Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25123 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2006,042
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper discusses the paper The Source of Historical Economic Fluctuations: An Analysis using Long-Run Restrictions by Neville Francis and Valerie A. Ramey. It argues that these authors have made great progress both in the precise measurement of labor input as well as determining the effect of productivity shocks on labor, but a number of questions remain. As for measurement, the issue of schooling needs further work. As for calculating the long-run impact of labor productivity shocks, unreasonable results emerge for the response of the capital stock, if included in the VAR. Using medium-term identification delivers more reasonable results.
Subjects: 
technological progress
business cycles
hours worked
labor productivity
vector autoregressions
identification
long-run restrictions
medium-run restrictions
JEL: 
E22
E23
E24
E32
C32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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