| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w15399
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 15399
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| Disasters Risk and Business Cycles |
| François Gourio
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| 发表日期 | 2009-10-01
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| 出版年 | 2009
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | To construct a business cycle model consistent with the observed behavior of asset prices, and study the effect of shocks to aggregate uncertainty, I introduce a small, time-varying risk of economic disaster in a standard real business cycle model. The paper establishes two simple theoretical results: first, when the probability of disaster is constant, the risk of disaster does not affect the path of macroeconomic aggregates - a "separation theorem" between macroeconomic quantities and asset prices in the spirit of Tallarini (2000). Second, shocks to the probability of disaster, which generate variation in risk premia over time, are observationally equivalent to preference shocks. An increase in the perceived probability of disaster leads to a collapse of investment and a recession, an increase in risk spreads, and a decrease in the yield on safe assets. To assess the empirical validity of the model, I infer the probability of disaster from observed asset prices and feed it into the model. The variation over time in this probability appears to account for a significant fraction of business cycle dynamics, especially sharp downturns in investment and output such as 2008-IV. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics
; Business Cycles
; Money and Interest Rates
; Financial Economics
; Portfolio Selection and Asset Pricing
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w15399
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573075
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François Gourio. Disasters Risk and Business Cycles. 2009.
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