Business Cycles in Emerging Markets: The Role of Durable Goods and Financial Frictions

June 1, 2011

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Business Cycles in Emerging Markets: The Role of Durable Goods and Financial Frictions, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2011) accessed September 19, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines how durable goods and financial frictions shape the business cycle of a small open economy subject to shocks to trend and transitory shocks. In the data, nondurable consumption is not as volatile as income for both developed and emerging market economies. The simulation of the model implies that shocks to trend play a less important role than previously documented. Financial frictions improve the ability of the model to match some key business cycle properties of emerging economies. A countercyclical borrowing premium interacts with the nature of durable goods delivering highly volatile consumption and very countercyclical net exports.

Subject: Business cycles, Consumption, Economic growth, Economic theory, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Financial frictions, Financial markets, Income, National accounts

Keywords: Borrowing premium, Business cycles, Consumer durables, Consumption, Consumption expenditure, Consumption goods, Durable goods, Durables, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Emerging markets, Financial frictions, Income, Open economy, Real business cycles, Trade balance, Utility share, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

38
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2011/133
Stock No:

WPIEA2011133
ISBN:

9781455259380
ISSN:

1018-5941

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