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Business Cycle during Structural Change: Arthur Lewis' Theory from a Neoclassical Perspective. / Kjetil Storesletten, Bo Zhao, Fabrizio Zilibotti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Storesletten, Kjetil.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26181.
- NBER working paper series no. w26181
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Business Cycle during Structural Change
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- We document that the nature of business cycles evolves over the process of development and structural change. In countries with large declining agricultural sectors, aggregate employment is uncorrelated with GDP. During booms, employment in agriculture declines while labor productivity increases in agriculture more than in other sectors. We construct a unified theory of business cycles and structural change consistent with the stylized facts. The focal point of the theory is the simultaneous decline and modernization of agriculture. As capital accumulates, agriculture becomes increasingly capital intensive as modern agriculture crowds out traditional agriculture. Structural change accelerates in booms and slows down in recessions. We estimate the model and show that it accounts well for both the structural transformation and the business cycle fluctuations of China.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2019.
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