Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50579 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
School of Economics Discussion Papers No. 11,06
Publisher: 
University of Kent, School of Economics, Canterbury
Abstract: 
The Japanese business cycle from 1980-2007 portrays less contemporaneous correlation of labor with output than in the US and also tends to lead output by one quarter. A canonical real business cycle model cannot account for these facts. This paper uses the business cycle accounting method a la Chari, Kehoe and McGrattan (2007) and shows that efficiency and labor market distortions are important in accounting for the quarterly business cycle fluctuation patterns in Japan. Fiscal and monetary variables such as labor income tax, money growth and interest rates cannot fully account for the distortions in the Japanese labor market.
Subjects: 
business cycle accounting
Japanese labor market
JEL: 
E13
E32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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