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Habit Persistence, Asset Returns, and the Business Cycle

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Boldrin, Michele, Christiano, Lawrence J, Fisher, Jonas D. M·2001·American Economic Review

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Two modifications are introduced into the standard real-business-cycle model: habit preferences and a two-sector technology with limited intersectoral factor mobility. The model is consistent with the observed mean risk-free rate, equity premium, and Sharpe ratio on equity. In addition, its business-cycle implications represent a substantial improvement over the standard model. It accounts for persistence in output, comovement of employment across different sectors over the business cycle, the evidence of “excess sensitivity” of consumption growth to output growth, and the “inverted leading-indicator property of interest rates,” that interest rates are negatively correlated with future output. (JEL D10, E10, E20, G12)

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Authors
Boldrin, M., Christiano, L. J., & Fisher, J. D. M.
Venue
American Economic Review
Published
2001-03-01
Volume
91
Issue
1
Pages
149-166
ISSN
0002-8282 (ISSN-L)
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W1985130276
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1,048
References
35
FWCI
80.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
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