Arbeitspapier
Unifying time-to-build theory
Several contributions have recently reconsidered the role of the time to build assumption in explaining some relevant stylized facts. In this paper, the similarities and differences which may emerge when the time to build structure of capital is introduced in a continuous or discrete time framework are studied and enlightened. The most striking difference lies in the dimensionality of the two frameworks, which is always finite in discrete but infinite in continuous time. Then, the deterministic version of the traditional time to build model developed by Kydland and Prescott is presented, and it is shown how the typical time to build model setup in continuous time can be obtained. Moreover, the richest dynamics in continuous time is investigated and, more importantly, it is shown that the predictions in terms of capital, output, and consumption behavior are not signi¯cantly di®erent from its discrete version once the economy is calibrated properly.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Economics Working Paper Series ; No. 08/98
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: General (includes Measurement and Data)
Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity: General
- Thema
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Discrete and continuous time
time-to-build
mixed functional differential equations
Bruttoinlandsprodukt
Zeitökonomie
Makroökonometrie
Theorie
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bambi, Mauro
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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ETH Zurich, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research
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Zurich
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2008
- DOI
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doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005678170
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bambi, Mauro
- ETH Zurich, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research
Entstanden
- 2008