Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/212298 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers No. 23/2014
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Helsinki
Abstract: 
In this paper we use a New Keynesian model to explain why volatility transfer from high frequency to low frequency cycles can and did occur during the period commonly referred to as the "great moderation". The model suggests that an increase in inflation aversion and/or a reduction to a commitment to output stabilization could have caused this volatility transfer. Together, the empirical and theoretical sections of the paper show that the "great moderation" may have been mostly an illusion, in that lower frequency cycles can be expected to be more volatile, given that there has been no apparent reversal in any of the policy parameters and hence in the volatility found in the low frequency cycles identified by use of time-frequency empirical techniques. In fact, those cycles appear to have increased in power and volatility in both relative and absolute terms.
Subjects: 
New Keynesian model
business cycles
growth cycles
time-frequency domain
discrete wavelet analysis
Empirical Mode Decomposition
JEL: 
C1
E2
E3
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-952-323-000-2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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