1987
DOI: 10.2307/1884285
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Are Output Fluctuations Transitory?

Abstract: According to the conventional view of the businesB cycle, fluctuations in output represent temporary deviations from trend. The purpose of this paper is to question this conventional view. If fluctuations in output are dominated by temporary deviations from the natural rate of output, then an unexpected change in output today should not substantially change one's forecast of output in, say, five or ten years. Our examination of quarterly postwar United States data leads us to be skeptical ahout this implicatio… Show more

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“…If a unit root is found in the MA term, then we drop the 's from the model so that a log-linear I I III IV I II III specification in levels remains (cf. Campbell and Mankiw 1987). Given the assumption that in such a simple price-quantity relationship like (1) stochastic trends must be missing, cointegration is ruled out and hence, a specification in levels indicates that the shock in sales as represented by the price elasticity will be transitory instead of permanent (e.g.…”
Section: Econometric Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…If a unit root is found in the MA term, then we drop the 's from the model so that a log-linear I I III IV I II III specification in levels remains (cf. Campbell and Mankiw 1987). Given the assumption that in such a simple price-quantity relationship like (1) stochastic trends must be missing, cointegration is ruled out and hence, a specification in levels indicates that the shock in sales as represented by the price elasticity will be transitory instead of permanent (e.g.…”
Section: Econometric Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…West (1988, p.202) résume le débat de la façon suivante : « Campbell and Mankiw (1987) and Nelson and Plosser (1982) both argue that if the random walk approximation in fact is reasonable, there are important implications for business cycle theory. This is because movements in random walks are permanent...…”
Section: Conséquences Pour La Théorie Macroéconomiquementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Comme nous l'avons fait remarquer dans la section précédente, ceci a pour conséquence que plusieurs variables réelles du modèle, notamment le produit et le salaire réel, sont engendrées par des processus qui contiennent des racines unitaires. Ceci est conforme aux résultats de nombreuses études empiriques récentes (voir entre autres Nelson et Plosser, 1982;Campbell et Mankiw, 1987Stulz et Wasserfallen, 1985).…”
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