Asset Prices in Affine Real Business Cycle Models

November 1, 2010

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Maral Shamloo, and Aytek Malkhozov. Asset Prices in Affine Real Business Cycle Models, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

We develop a tractable way to solve for equilibrium quantities and asset prices in a class of real business cycle models featuring Epstein-Zin preferences and affine dynamics for productivity growth and volatility. The method relies on log-linearization and exploits the log-normality of all the quantities. It is an easy substitute for more involved numerical techniques, such as higher order perturbation methods, and allows for easy implementation and analytical results. We show explicitly the link with perturbation techniques and find that the quantitative difference between the two is insignificant for several models of interest.

Subject: Asset prices, Business cycles, Consumption, Labor, Productivity

Keywords: Mover accent, Steady state, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

42
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Working Paper No. 2010/249
Stock No:

WPIEA2010249
ISBN:

9781455209491
ISSN:

1018-5941

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