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July/August 2007, 
Vol. 89, No. 4
Posted 2007-07-01

An Estimated DSGE Model for the United Kingdom

by Riccardo DiCecio and Edward Nelson

The authors estimate the dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (2005) on U.K. data. Their estimates suggest that price stickiness is a more important source of nominal rigidity in the United Kingdom than wage stickiness. Their estimates of parameters governing investment behavior are only well behaved when post-1979 observations are included, which reflects government policies until the late 1970s that obstructed the influence of market forces on investment.