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Real Business Cycle models account for business cycle fluctuations as efficient responses to real economic exogenous changes or shocks

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Log-linearisation of the Euler equation

I am struggling to log-linearize the following around the steady state: $ U'\left(e^{z_t} F(k_t, 1) + (1 - \delta)k_t - k_{t+1}\right) - \beta E_{z_t}U'\left(e^{z_{t+1}} F(k_{t+1}, 1) + (1 - \delta)k_{...
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How to interpret impulse response functions?

I need your help. How do I interpret the following impulse response functions in sequence to a growth factor shock in the context of an RBC model? And how can it be that the marginal tax rate ...
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In RBC model, why is importnt to match unconditional second moments?

This is a sentence I just read in the literature: Following common practice in the RBC literature, we compare unconditional second moments in the model and in the data. I am wondering why. Why does it ...
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Log-linearization in RBC model

Can anyone show how by applying log-linearization we can turn this equation: $\frac{X_t}{C_t} = \left( (1 - \vartheta) + \vartheta \left( \frac{L_t}{C_t} \right)^{1-\nu} \right)^\frac{1}{1-\nu}$ into ...
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How to derive a solution to stochastic difference equation using Blanchard-Kahn method?

Let $z_t =\rho z_{t-1}+\epsilon_t$, where $|\rho|<1$ and $E_t e_{t+1}=0$ I need to solve the stochastic difference equation $E_t[y_{t+2}-2ay_{t+1}+by_t]=z_t$ for $y_t$, $t\geq0$, where $0<b<1$...
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What are the major flaws of the RBC model and how does the New Keynesian model address them?

Looking for a generic answer to this question and potentially literature etc. that will help me study this question. Thanks in advance.
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In the RBC model, why is household's problem dynamic?

Why is capital assumed to be a good accumulated in the current period t but being used in t+1? I think my interpretation is wrong here. I understand that households problem is dynamic because of this ...
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Is IS-LM still used in research or we learn it just to understand basic macro?

Since i had my "Introduction to advanced macroeconomics" and discovered DSGE i've been wondering if IS-LM is used in research, i know it was used in the 80's or so, but now?
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Are typical macro DSGE (RBC or New Keynesian DSGE) models linear, non-linear, or log (linearized)?

In Carl Hommes 2015 book on Expectations, it seems he considers DSGE models (being it either RBC DSGE or New Keynesian DSGE) to be linear, or (log)linearized models, on page 3 of the introduction. He ...
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Consumption smoothing in RBC Model

I have the following inter temporal utility function: $U(t)=(\frac{s(t)}{1-\sigma})(c_t/c_{t-1}^\gamma)^{(1-\sigma)} - \chi*h(t)$ where $h(t)$ is the hours worked. I know that gamma is responsible ...
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Impact of technology shock on hours worked in basic RBC model - short and long run with logarithmic preferences

First off, I apologise if, in the following, I do not present the model adequately - I'm at an intermediate level of the study of economics. My question is at the bottom. Anyway, consider a basic RBC ...
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Good paper/article on the mechanisms in RBC vs New Keynesian models

I have read technical books about the (baseline) RBC and New Keynesian models. However, these books tend not to explain very intuitively the propagation mechanisms of shocks between the two models, ...
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Can we add well-being into macro model as an endogenous variable?

People talk a lot about well-being as an objective of macro policy (together with gdp growth). So if well-being is an objective, i'm wondering if we can add well-being into macro model as an ...
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Textbook on the mathematics of RBC/DSGE models?

I'm reading David Romer's Macroeconomics. However, what I don't like is that he doesn't go at all into detail about the mathematical underpinnings of RBC/DSGE models. When it comes to the central ...
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Utility function of habit formation model

In the habit formation RBC model, the utility can be given as follows: $U(c_{t},n_{t}) = \ln(c_{t}) - \frac{\theta}{1+\upsilon} \bigg(\frac{n_{t}}{n_{t-1}^{\phi}}\bigg)^{1+\upsilon}$ When I do FOC ...
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Can saddle path not go through the origin in Ramsey model?

In my case, the utility function is CEIS and discrete, the production fuction is $f(k_{t})=k_{t}^\alpha$, the budget constraint is $f(k_{t})+(1-\delta)k_{t}=c_{t} + k_{t+1}$. I use Jacobian matrix and ...
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What does it mean for a technology to have a $|\rho|<1$?

Nowadays, when trying to model (log)technology $a_t$, I've seen many times the following: $a_t = \rho a_{t-1}+\epsilon$, where epsilon is given a certain probability distribution. What does it mean ...
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Guess and verify?

I am trying to understand the intuition of the guess and verify method. Please could someone furnish me with a basic and very intuitive explanation of what we are trying to achieve and how this method ...
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Depreciation vs. obsolescence in RBC and New Keynesian DSGE models

A common calibration for depreciation rates within RBC models is to assume 10% depreciation rate (based on NIPA stats, for instance). This implies a half-life of about 6.5 years. But this estimate ...
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Technological shocks and Labour supply in RBC and NK models

In the class notes of Eric Sims on RBC and New Keynesian models, in his site, we get to see several graphs with the impulse response functions (IRF) of real variables such as output, labour hours, ...
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What are the most used functional forms for utility in RBC literature, and why?

In the RBC/NK literature one has to define a functional form for the utility function of the representative household. What are the most used forms, and why are they used? Any help would be ...
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What's an RBC BGP's feasibility?

I'm reading some note of Eric Sims on extensions to RBCs and he writes «In any balanced growth path, feasibility requires that hours do not grow». The author then explains that this is so, because if ...
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How to deal with Prescott's formulation of time to build in his original RBC model?

So I was replicating the results obtained in section 4 of Prescott's original paper, which derives optimality conditions in steady state without shock. I hope to solve the social planner's ...
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The stochastic discount factor $M_t$ in a simple RBC model

In these class notes, page 3, the author defines the stochastic discount factor as $M_t=\beta^t\frac{E_0(u'(C_{t+1}))}{u'(C_{0}))}$. I'm trying to find the rationale behind it. A cash flow at ...
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Find the standard deviation of a log-normal AR1-process with exponent

I am trying to replicate a RBC model with technology shock $\log(z_{t+1})=\rho \log(z_t)+\epsilon_{t+1} \ $ with $\epsilon_t \sim$ i.i.d.$ \mathcal{N}(0,\sigma^2)$ and $0 < \rho < 1$ The ...
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Given a standard Cobb-Douglas production function, how to estimate the output elasticity of labour and capital by country?

Given a standard Cobb-Douglas production function: $$Y_t=(A_t L_t)^{\alpha} K_t^{1-\alpha}$$ Moreover, the production function has constant returns to scale: $$\alpha + (1-\alpha)=1$$ How to estimate ...
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