| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16424 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16424 |
| The Great Diversification and its Undoing | |
| Vasco M. Carvalho; Xavier Gabaix | |
| 发表日期 | 2010-09-30 |
| 出版年 | 2010 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We investigate the hypothesis that macroeconomic fluctuations are primitively the results of many microeconomic shocks, and show that it has significant explanatory power for the evolution of macroeconomic volatility. We define "fundamental" volatility as the volatility that would arise from an economy made entirely of idiosyncratic microeconomic shocks, occurring primitively at the level of sectors or firms. In its empirical construction, motivated by a simple model, the sales share of different sectors vary over time (in a way we directly measure), while the volatility of those sectors remains constant. We find that fundamental volatility accounts for the swings in macroeconomic volatility in the US and the other major world economies in the past half century. It accounts for the "great moderation" and its undoing. Controlling for our measure of fundamental volatility, there is no break in output volatility. The initial great moderation is due to a decreasing share of manufacturing between 1975 and 1985. The recent rise of macroeconomic volatility is due to the increase of the size of the financial sector. We provide a model to think quantitatively about the large comovement generated by idiosyncratic shocks. As the origin of aggregate shocks can be traced to identifiable microeconomic shocks, we may better understand the origins of aggregate fluctuations. |
| 主题 | Macroeconomics ; Business Cycles |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16424 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574099 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Vasco M. Carvalho,Xavier Gabaix. The Great Diversification and its Undoing. 2010. |
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