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A Real-Business-Cycle model with endogenous discounting and a government sector

We introduce an endogenous discount factor as in Uzawa (1968) and Schmitt-Grohe and Uribe (2003) into a real-business-cycle setup with Greenwood et al. (1988) preferences and augment the model with a detailed government sector. We calibrate the arti ficial economy to Bulgarian data for the period following the introduction of the currency board arrangement (1999-2016). We investigate the quantitative importance of endogenous discounting for the propagation cyclical fluctuations in Bulgaria. The presence of an endogenous discount factor improves the model performance against data, and in addition this extended setup dominates the standard RBC model framework with a constant discount factor, e.g., Vasilev (2009).

Language
Englisch

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Business cycles
Uzawa preferences
endogenous discounting
Bulgaria

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Vasilev, Aleksandar
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(where)
Kiel, Hamburg
(when)
2018

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Vasilev, Aleksandar
  • ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Time of origin

  • 2018

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