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Is the basic RBC model a weak model?
When is a model really weak?
A model is an abstraction of reality, to explain a part of it. A model is weak when it cannot explain what it's supposed to be explaining. Just adding features to a model ...
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Real Business Cycle Theory
It's from King and Rebelo (2000) "Resuscitating Real Business Cycles". Here is a link to the NBER working paper version. The graph is in Figure 8 on p.94.
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Basic New Keynesian Model - Price and Wage Level after shock
Try to give a look at what happens to inflation's IRF. If it stays positive for the whole horizon of the IRF then simply prices have increased over time at the inflation rate. I guess that any non-...
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What are the assumptions of real business cycle theory and Keynesian theory?
The distinction is between "nominal" and "real" recessions and booms.
Real business cycle theory was developed to point out the fact that variations in employment and hours could occur even in an ...
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How can I calculate with the average of the consumption in an RBC framework?
Consider the risk free steady state. In that situation the Euler equation becomes:
$$ \left(\frac{C_{t+1}-b \overline{C_{t}}}{C_t-b \overline{C_{t-1}}}\right)^{-\sigma}=\frac{1}{\beta \cdot (1+r)}$$
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Basic New Keynesian model with flexible price
I think what you are looking for is a standard RBC-model. Because the main step, going from RBC to New Keynesian, is to include Calvo pricing among other things. This is covered in many textbooks like ...
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Real effect of monetary policy
Does it come from the fact that prices are rigid in DSGE models? Or that there is imperfect competition?
The result that monetary policy can affect real variables itself is due to price stickiness, ...
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Basic New Keynesian model with flexible price
As DoubleBass says basic New-Keysian model with fully flexible prices is RBC model, I'd just add that if you have already the set-up of Calvo and want to convert it to fully flexible prices you need ...
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Economic Reasoning for Structural change vs Cyclical change
It is not possible ex-ante, it's all about:
economic interpretations, i.e., economic schools of thought
expectations on central banks' next moves,
political/ideological views,
the (hidden and/or ...
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How to deal with Prescott's formulation of time to build in his original RBC model?
By re-indexing all investment projects in the form of $s_{J,t}$, I get the following two equivalent constraints
\begin{align}
c_t+y_{t+1}-y_t&\leq f(k_t)-\sum_{i=1}^\infty\varphi_j s_{J,t-(J-j)} %...
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