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"Where's the Beef? The Trivial Dynamics of Real Business Cycle Models"
by Yi Wen

The extremely weak propagation mechanisms of real business cycle (RBC) models are well acknowledged, and some effort has been devoted to improving the models on this dimension. This paper builds on these efforts to provide an explicit explanation of why various existing RBC models do not replicate real world business cycles, and discusses modifications necessary to bring real business cycle theory into closer conformity with the data.

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Category > Monetary Policy/Macroeconomics
Author > Yi Wen