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Real Business Cycle Model (RBC)
Seyed Ali MadanizadehSharif University of Technology
October 5, 2020
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Business Cycles
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Business Cycles
GDP
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Business Cycles
Industrial Production
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Business Cycles
GDP and Industrial Production
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Business Cycles
Service Sector Production
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Business Cycles
Consumption
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Business Cycles
Capital formation (Investment)
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Business Cycles
Capital formation (Investment)
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Business Cycles
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Business Cycles
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Business Cycles
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Business Cycles
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Business Cycles
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Business Cycles
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Business Cycles
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Business Cycles
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Business Cycles
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Business Cycles
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Business Cycles
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Business Cycles
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Business Cycles
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Measuring the Business Cycles
Hodrick-Prescott (H-P) Filter
min{y gt }
∞0
∞
∑t=0
{(yt − ygt )
2+ λ
[(yt+1 − ygt )−
(yt − ygt−1
)]2}H-P filter suppresses the really low frequency fluctuations ' 8 yearsquarterly data λ = 1600
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Measuring the Business Cycles
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Measuring the Business Cycles
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Introduction
Lucas 1980: “One of the functions of theoretical economics is toprovide fully articulated, artificial economic systems that can serve aslaboratories in which policies that would be prohibitively expensive toexperiment with in actual economies can be tested out at much lowercost. [...] Our task as I see it [...] is to write a FORTRAN programthat will accept specific economic policy rules as ‘input’and willgenerate as ‘output’statistics describing the operating characteristicsof time series we care about, which are predicted to result from thesepolicies.”
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Introduction
Economists have long been puzzled by the observations that duringpeacetime industrial market economies display recurrent, largefluctuations in output and employment over relatively short timeperiods.
These observations are considered puzzling because the associatedmovements in labor’s marginal product are small.
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Introduction
Prescott:
For the United States, in fact, given people’s ability and willingness tointertemporally and intratemporally substitute consumption and leisureand given the nature of the changing production possibility set, itwould be puzzling if the economy did not display these largefluctuations in output and employment with little associatedfluctuations in the marginal product of labor.Moreover, standard theory also correctly predicts the amplitude ofthese fluctuations, their serial correlation properties, and the fact thatthe investment component of output is about six times as volatile asthe consumption component.This perhaps surprising conclusion is the principal finding of a researchprogram initiated by Kydland and me (1982) and extended by Kydlandand me (1984), Hansen (1985a), and Bain (1985).
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Introduction
Economic theory implies that, given the nature of the shocks totechnology and people’s willingness and ability to intertemporally andintratemporally substitute, the economy will display fluctuations likethose the U.S. economy displays.
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RBC Model
A Microfounded general equilibrium macroeconomic model (Proposedby Kydland and Prescott (1982))
Explains the short run fluctuations of macroeconomic variables(Business cycle phenomena)Consistent with long run facts: a unique model of growth and businesscyclesA Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with rationalexpectations
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RBC Model
A benchmark RBC model
Households:
maxct ,kt+1,it ,ht
E0∞
∑t=0
βtu (ct , 1− ht )
subject to
ct + it ≤ wtht + vtkt + πt
kt+1 ≤ (1− δ) kt + itkt ≥ 0
k0 : Given
We assume that the consumer is making all time-t choices (it , ct ,kt+1, ht) conditional on time t information (all variables subscripted tand below).
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RBC Model
FirmsmaxKt ,Ht
AtF (Kt ,Ht )− wtHt − vtKt
Define:zt = logAt
and it follows an AR(1) process:
zt = θzt−1 + εt
where εt is a mean zero i.i.d random process with variance σ2
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RBC Model
Equilibrium:
An equilibrium in this economy is a joint distribution of prices andallocations where:
Yt = Ct + It
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Effect of an Increase in Technology: Capital Market
Kd, Ks
R/P
(R/P)*’
(R/P)*
K
Capital supply
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Effect of an Increase in Technology: Labor Market
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Transmission Mechanism
How does a shock transmit over time?
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Transmission Mechanism
Compare
A permanent shockOne time shockA persistent shock
Effects
SpotPersistency
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Steps to Solve Dyanmic Models
1 FOCs2 Solve for Steady States3 (Log-Linearize)4 Solve for the recursive law of motion5 Calibration and Estimation
1 Calculate the moments: ratios, correlations, and standard deviations forthe different variables both for the artificial economy and for the actualeconomy
2 Calibrate or Estimate
6 Evaluatation
1 Compare how well the model economy matches the actual economy’scharacteristics
2 Calculate the IRFs in response to different shocks
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Solving the Full Model
FOC: HH
[ct ] : βtuc (ct , 1− ht ) = λt
[ht ] : βtul (ct , 1− ht ) = eztFh,tλt[kt+1] : λt = Et [λt+1 (1− δ+ ezt+1Fk ,t+1)]
FOC: Firm
wt = eztFh,tvt = eztFk ,t
Equilibrium Condition: Labor and capital markets clear.
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Solving the Full Model
Consumption Leisure decision (Interpretation!)
ul (ct , 1− ht ) = uc (ct , 1− ht )wtwhere wt = eztFh,t
Euler Equation
uc ,t = βEt [uc ,t+1(1− δ+ vt+1)]
where vt = eztFk ,t
Resource constraint:
ct + kt+1 ≤ eztF (kt , ht ) + (1− δ) kt
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Solving the RBC Model: The planner problem
RBC model does not have any distortion or market imperfection,therefore the welfare theorems apply to these models:1) the competitive equilibrium is pareto-optimal2) a pareto-optimal allocation can be decentralized as a competitiveequilibrium
The social planner equilibrium and the competitive equilibrium areidentical and admit a unique solution
So we can instead solve the planner problem instead.
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Solving the RBC Model: The planner problem
RBC model in the planner form:
maxCt ,Kt+1,Ht
E0∞
∑t=0u (Ct , 1−Ht )
subject to
Ct +Kt+1 ≤ eztF (Kt ,Ht ) + (1− δ)Ktzt = θzt−1 + εt
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Solving the Full Model
FOC
[ct ] : βtuc (ct , 1− ht ) = λt
[ht ] : βtul (ct , 1− ht ) = eztFh,tλt[kt+1] : λt = Et [λt+1 (1− δ+ ezt+1Fk ,t+1)]
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Solving the Full Model
Consumption Leisure decision (Interpretation!)
ul (ct , 1− ht ) = uc (ct , 1− ht )eztFh,t
(remember: wt = eztFh,t)
Euler Equation
uc ,t = βEt [uc ,t+1(ezt+1Fk ,t+1 + 1− δ)]
(remember: vt = eztFk ,t)
Resource constraint:
ct + kt+1 ≤ eztF (kt , ht ) + (1− δ) kt
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Example
Sample Utility Functions
U (ct , ht ) =
(c1−ξt (1− ht )ξ
)1−γ− 1
1− χ
U (ct , ht ) = (1− ξ) log (ct ) + ξ log (1− ht )
U (ct , ht ) =c1−γt − 11− γ
− ξh1+φt
1+ φ
Sample Production functions
F (K ,H) = K αH1−α
F (K ,H) =(
αK 1−1/η + (1− α)H1−1/η) η
η−1
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Numerical Solution
Numerical Methods to solve the model:
Bellman’s equation, and apply numerical dynamic programmingmethods.Linear-quadratic approximation around the steady statesLog-linearize the model around the steady state
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Log Linearization
For x ∼ 0 :ex ≈ 1+ x
For xt , let xt = log( xtx
)be the log-deviation of xt from its steady
state. Thus, 100 ∗ xt is (approximately) the percent deviation of xtfrom x . Then,
xt = xe xt ≈ x (1+ xt )Formally: first order Taylor expansion,
g (xt ) = g(xe xt
)gt = g (x + x xt )
g (x) (1+ gt ) ≈ gt ≈ g (x)(1+
g ′ (x) xg (x)
xt
)gt ≈
g ′ (x) xg (x)
xt =g ′xgxt
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Solving the Full Model: An example
Take: U (ct , ht ) =c1−γt −11−γ − ξ h
1+φt1+φ and F (K ,H) = K
αH1−α
Consumption Leisure decision
ξHφt = C
−γt eztK α
t H−αt
(remember: wt = eztFh,t)
Euler Equation
C−γt = βEt
[C−γt+1(e
zt+1K α−1t+1 H
1−αt+1 + 1− δ)
](remember: vt = eztFk ,t)
Resource constraint:
Ct +Kt+1 ≤ eztF (Kt ,Ht ) + (1− δ)Kt
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Solution: Recursive Law of Motion
We guess a decision rule
kt+1 = γ1kt + γ2ztct = η1kt + η2zt
Then verify by substituting into the FOCs.
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Example (1)
HH problem with no capital and no labor supply decision
max∞
∑t=0
βt ln (ct )
s.t. ct + bt+1 = yt + (1+ Rt ) bt
Intuition of how the EE is working
How Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH) is in place
1 Rt = R, yt = θyt−1 + εt2 Rt = θRt−1 + εt , yt = y
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Example (2)
RBC with no capital and no labor supply decision
max∞
∑t=0
βt ln (ct )
s.t. ct + bt+1 = wt lt + πt + (1+ Rt ) bt
yt = ezt l1−αt
zt = θzt−1 + εt
πt = yt − wt lt
Solve the GE problem: Rt becomes endogenous versus an exogenousvariable for the HH.
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Example (3)
RBC with labor supply decision but no capital
max∞
∑t=0
βt(c1−σt − 11− σ
− ξl1+φ
1+ φ
)s.t. ct + bt+1 = wt lt + πt + (1+ Rt ) bt
yt = ezt l1−αt
zt = θzt−1 + εt
πt = yt − wt lt
Intuition of how the EE is working
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Example (4)
A dynamic Household problem with capital but no labor supplydecision
max∞
∑t=0
βt ln (ct )
s.t. ct + kt+1 = wt lt + vtkt + (1− δ) kt
Assume wt = w , lt = l
Take vt = εt , pure iid white noise shock
Take vt = θvt−1 + εt , an AR(1) shock
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Example (5)
RBC with capital but no labor supply decision
max∞
∑t=0
βt ln (ct )
s.t. ct + kt+1 = eztkαt + (1− δ) kt
zt = θzt−1 + εt
FOC:1ct= βEt
[1ct+1
Rt+1
]where Rt = αeztkα−1
t + (1− δ)
How the Golden Rule comes into place
Discuss the Spot and Persistency Effects
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Example (5)
Show how persistence of a shock can affect Rt and then consumer’sdecision
Show graphically how a shock affect the capital market and rate ofreturn.
No persistenceFull persistenceMild persistence
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Example (5)
Take δ = 1
Solve using the Golden rule of the log-linearized equations
kt+1 = αkt +(1
θαβ− 1)zt
ct = αkt +1+ αβ− 1
θ
1− αβzt
Intuition for the role of θ
Propagation Mechanism
Spot and Persistency Effects
kt is an AR(2) process! Economic Structural effects on thePropagation Mechanism
Find unconditional variances
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Example (5)
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Hansen RBC model
Technology Shock!
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Hansen RBC model
Capital stock Shock!
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More Examples
See Sargent paper
DSGE user guide
Uhlig’s lectures
Dr Tavakkolian’s Book on DSGE and Dynare
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Calibration
β :At the non-stochastic steady state, we have R = 1β . The average
real interest rate in the U.S. is usually around 4% annually which isabout 1% quarterly
β = 0.99
α : 1− α will be labor’s share of output, a quantity that can beestimated from the national income accounts
α = 0.4
χ :Estimates from micro studies of the typical worker’s intertemporalelasticity of substitution are in the range of χ ' 1
χ = 1u (c , 1− h) = (1− ξ) ln c + ξ ln (1− h)
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Calibration
α : By solving for the steady states we find that:
α
1− h = (1− α) (1− α)ych
From long run data, 31% of available time is spent working⇒ h = 0.31The steady state output to consumption ratio is about 1.33
( yc
)⇒ α = 0.64
Cooley and Prescott estimate that depreciation is 4.8% annually, so1.2% quarterly (δ = 0.012).
ν : Use quarterly population growth rate
ν = 0.012
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Calibration
θ and σε :This model has perfect competition and constant returns toscale.
So zt − zt−1 is the Solow residual.The average value of the Solow residual gives us our estimate for γ.Cooley and Prescott set γ = 0.0156, giving about 1.6% annual TFPgrowth.Once we subtract out this average, we can estimate an AR(1) modelθ = 0.95 and σε = 0.007
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Estimation
Byesian Estimation is an alternative method to calibration.
We assume a prior distribution for our parameters.
We simulate the model and try to match the models outcome withthe actual outcome from data
We find a posterior distribution for the parameters
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Simulation and the Test
Simulation:
Now we can simulate the model on a computer and we get time seriesfor output, employment, productivity, investment, consumption, andcapital.
Test
We look at the moments of real and simulated data
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Revisiting Calibration and Estimation
Parameters estimation
Matching with the moments of dataMatching with the data
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Evaluation
To an RBC theorist, these numbers represent success.
We’ve managed to write down a very simple model that duplicatesmany of the properties (moments) of the actual data.
There are few failures though.
The RBC approach to this failing is to investigate why the modeldoesn’t match, and adjust the model so that it does match.
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Issues
Understate the variability of both consumption and hours
The consumption variability is simple. Even with careful measurement,a lot of “consumption” is actually purchase of consumer durables,which really belongs in investment
In order to generate higher variation in hours worked for eachindividual worker, we need to make them more willing to substituteintertemporally - work less when wages are low and more when theyare high.
micro studies show a low IES, so we can’t justify simply lowering χIntroduce Unemployment (Gary Hansen 1985)
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Issues
Persistence of fluctuations
However, their persistence really isn’t much more than that of theSolow residual, which is the exogenous source of shocks.The problem is that new investment is very small relative to the capitalstock, so the capital stock itself varies little.So new mechanisms for propagation:
Financial markets frictionsLabor market search
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Critics
Why matching moments is a desire property? There could be manyother alternative
If solow residual are the sources of shocks, so recessions are results oftechnical regress.
It is not clear what particular technological advances or disasters canbe associated with any of the major short-term swings in the Solowresidual.
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RBC Model Implications: a Revolution
Main policy conclusion: Fluctuations of all variable (output,consumption, employment, investment...) are the optimal responsesto technology shocks exogenous changes in the economicenvironment.
Shocks are not always desirable. But once they occur, this is the bestpossible outcome: business cycle fluctuations are the optimal responseto technology shocks => no need for government interventions: itcan be only deleterious
Financial sector has no role in determining the bysiness cycles (Moneyhas no role)
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RBC Model Implications: a Revolution
The policy implication of this research is that costly efforts atstabilization are likely to be counterproductive.
Economic fluctuations are optimal responses to uncertainty in the rateof technological change.
However, this does not imply that the amount of technologicalchange is optimal or invariant to policy.
If policies adopted to stabilize the economy reduce the average rate oftechnological change, then stabilization policy is costly.
To summarize, attention should be focused not on fluctuations inoutput but rather on determinants of the average rate oftechnological advance.
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RBC Revolution
Furious response from "people from the Oceans"
From mid’80s to mid’90s: ten years lost in useless ideological debatesbetween the Oceans and the Lakes
From mid’90s: convergence on methodology: "the RBC approach asthe new orthodoxy in macroeconomics"
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Some Intuitions
Relative labour supply responds to relative wages between twodifferent periods => households substitute labour intertemporally
Also the interest rate matters for labour supply => ↑ r =>↑ hstoday, because MPK is high => crucial channel for employmentfluctuations
What is the effect of ↑ w or ↑ r?
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Some Intuitions
temporary ↑ w ⇒ substitution effect prevails ↑ hs ⇒↓(ctwt
)(given
the intratemporal trade-off between consumption and labour:ul (ct ,1−ht )uc (ct ,1−ht ) = wt
permanent ↑ w => income and substitution effects cancel out, no
change in hst and(ctwt
)Temporary increase in both w and r => intertemporal substitutionboth in labour and consumption =>↑↑ hst
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Some Intuitions
The standard neoclassical intratemporal trade-off betweenconsumption and labour
ul (ct , 1− ht )uc (ct , 1− ht )
= wt
hence, for a given wage, C and H tend to move in the oppositedirection
How one can get both C and H highly pro-cyclical?
Highly procyclical real wage (=> productivity shocks!!)
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Key Readings:
Kydland and Prescott, Econometrica 1982, “Time to build andaggregate fluctuations” .
Prescott 1986 “Theory ahead of business cycle measurement”
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A Few simple examples (6)
A simple 2-period example to show the transmission mechanism(δ = 1)
maxU (c0) + βU (c1)
s.t. c0 + k1 = A0kα0
c1 = A1kα1
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A few simple examples (7)
A simple 2-period example to show how does uncertainty work
Without Capital:maxU (c0) + βU (c1)
s.t. c0 + b1 = y1c1 = y2 + (1+ r) b1
y2 = y2 + ∆y with prob. 12 and y2 = y2 − ∆y with prob 12
With Capital and δ = 1 :
maxU (c0) + βU (c1)
s.t. c0 + k1 = A1kα0
c1 = A2ka1
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A few simple examples (8)
A 2-period model with labor supply:
U = log ct −h1+φt1+ φ
becomes
ht =(wtct
) 1φ
So the elasticity of labor supply w.r.t. real wages = 1φ :Frisch elsticity
Show intertemporal labor substitutions
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A few simple examples (5)
RBC with no labor, log utility, δ = 1 :
maxct ,kt+1
E0∞
∑t=0
βt log ct
subject to
ct + kt+1 ≤ AtF (kt )
logAt = θ logAt−1 + εt
Analytical solution
Log-linearized solution
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A few simple examples (5)
RBC model with no labor supply:
maxct ,kt+1
E0∞
∑t=0u (ct )
subject to
ct + kt+1 ≤ Atkαt + (1− δ) kt
logAt = θ logAt−1 + εt
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Example (5)
If δ = 1 : Guess:
kt+1 = Πeztkαt
ct = Γeztkαt
Then:
Π = αβ
Γ = 1− αβ
Intuitions!
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Example (1)
HH problem with no capital and no labor supply decision
max∞
∑t=0
βt ln (ct )
s.t. ct + bt+1 = yt + (1+ Rt ) bt
Intuition of how the EE is working
How Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH) is in place:
Rt = θRt−1 + εt , yt = y
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Example (1)
HH problem with no capital and no labor supply decision
max∞
∑t=0
βt ln (ct )
s.t. ct + bt+1 = yt + (1+ Rt ) bt
Intuition of how the EE is working
How Permanent Income Hypothesis (PIH) is in place:
Rt = R, yt = θyt−1 + εt
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Example (1)
ct = Et [ct+1]−1σE [Rt+1] = Et [ct+1]
c ct + bbt+1 = y yt + (1+ R) bbtc = y + Rb
ct = yt + (1+ R) γbt − γbt+1yt + (1+ R) γbt − γbt+1 = Et
[yt+1 + (1+ R) γbt+1 − γbt+2
](1+ R) γbt − (2+ R) γbt+1 + γEt
[bt+2
]+ (1− θ) yt = 0
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Example (1)
(1+ R) γbt − (2+ R) γbt+1 + γEt[bt+2
]+ (1− θ) yt = 0
Assume:bt+1 = ξbt + ηyt
(1+ R) γbt − (2+ R) γ(ξbt + ηyt
)+γEt
[(ξbt+1 + ηyt+1
)]+(1− θ) yt = 0
(1+ R) γbt − (2+ R) γ(ξbt + ηyt
)+γEt
[(ξ(ξbt + ηyt
)+ ηyt+1
)]+(1− θ) yt = 0
(1+ R) γbt − (2+ R) γ(ξbt + ηyt
)+γ
(ξ2bt + ξηyt + θηyt
)+(1− θ) yt = 0
((1+ R) γ− (2+ R) γξ + γξ2
)bt +(γη (ξ + θ)− (2+ R) γη + (1− θ)) yt = 0
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Example (1)
((1+ R) + (2+ R) ξ + ξ2
)γbt +(γη (ξ + θ)− (2+ R) γη + (1− θ)) yt = 0
(1+ R) + (2+ R) ξ + ξ2 = 0
(γ (ξ + θ)− (2+ R) γ) η + (1− θ) = 0
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