Uncertainty Shocks and Business Cycle Research / Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, Pablo A. Guerrón-Quintana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Guerrón-Quintana, Pablo A.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26768.

NBER working paper series no. w26768

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.

Summary:

We review the literature on uncertainty shocks and business cycle research. First, we motivate the study of uncertainty shocks by documenting the presence of time-variation in the volatility of macroeconomic time series. Second, we enumerate the mechanisms that researchers have postulated to link uncertainty shocks and business cycles. Third, we outline how we can specify uncertainty shocks. Fourth, we postulate a real business cycle model augmented with financial frictions and uncertainty shocks. Fifth, we use the model to illustrate our previous discussions and to show how uncertainty shocks can be expansionary.

Notes:

Print version record

February 2020.