Business-Cycle Anatomy

We propose a new strategy for dissecting the macroeconomic time series, provide a template for the business- cycle propagation mechanism that best describes the data, and use its properties to appraise models of both the parsimonious and the medium- scale variety. Our findings support the existence...

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Main Author: Angeletos, George-Marios (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association, 2021-03-30T13:36:03Z.
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