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Business Cycle Accounting For Chile / Ludvig Söderling, Ina Simonovska.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Söderling, Ludvig.
- Series:
- IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/061
- IMF Working Papers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business cycles--Chile.
- Business cycles.
- Chile--Economic conditions.
- Chile.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (30 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- We investigate sources of economic fluctuations in Chile during 1998-2007 within the framework of a standard neoclassical growth model with time-varying frictions (wedges). We analyze the relative importance of efficiency, labor, investment, and government/trade wedges for business cycles in Chile. The purpose of this exercise is twofold: (i) focus the policy discussion on the most important wedges in the economy; and (ii) identify which broad class of models would present fruitful avenues for further research. We find that different wedges have played different roles during our studied period, but that the efficiency and labor wedges have had the greatest impact. We also compare our results with existing studies on Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico.
- Contents:
- Contents; I. Introduction; II. Analytical Framework; A. Calibration; Tables; 1. Parameter Estimates for Benchmark Economy; III. Results; Figures; 1. Benchmark Model-Measured Wedges; 2. Benchmark Model-Output Data and Efficiency Wedge; IV. Alternative Specification: Adjusting for Copper Investment; 2. Parameter Estimates for Alternative Economy; 3. Alternative Model-Measured Wedges; 4. Alternative Model-Output Data and Efficiency Wedge; 5. Alternative Model-Investment Data and Efficiency Wedge; 6. Alternative Model-Hours Data and Efficiency Wedge; V. Conclusion and Policy Recommendations
- 7. Alternative Model-Consumption Data and Efficiency WedgeReferences; Appendices; 1. Data Sources and Calculation; 2. Results from Benchmark Model; 3. Sensitivity Analysis
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed July 3, 2015).
- ISBN:
- 9786613821683
- 9781462378005
- 1462378005
- 9781452730929
- 145273092X
- 9781282462205
- 1282462202
- 9781451913767
- 1451913761
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