Arbeitspapier

Endogenous Business Cycles and Growth

Current explanations why a growing economy necessarily goes through booms and recessions predict countercyclical R&D investment. As this is very controversial from an empirical perspective, a stochastic Poisson model of endogenous business cycles and growth is presented where the determinants of the cyclical behaviour of R&D investment are analytically studied. Providing an explicit expression for the expected length of a cycle shows that high frequency fluctuations can indeed be understood by this approach. It is also shown how small technological improvements translate into large aggregate fluctuations.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 920

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
endogenous fluctuations and growth
uncertainty under continuous time

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Waelde, Klaus
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2003

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Waelde, Klaus
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2003

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