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- Subject: Re: RBC Modelling
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- Date: Tuesday, 1 Sep 1992 21:00:51 MDT
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- MIKE ORSZAG
- Department of Economics
- University of Michigan writes:
-
- > There is no indication that the "technological shocks" of RBC models
- > have anything to do with real technological innovation; I think
- > they are connected with various real rigidities which are in any
- > case indistinguishable from technological shocks even at the
- > microeconomic level.
-
- This seems to indicate that RBC models are not too bad, does it not?
- They mimic the real world data rather well. We may quibble whether the
- drving force is really a technology shock, but if it is obervationally
- equivalent to a technology shock we might as well act as if it really is
- one.
-
- I am interested also to see if people think monetary shocks are also
- important. It is my understanding that New Keynesians really buy into the
- notion that sticky prices are important, but that sticky wages are not.
- My inclination based on admittedly casual empiricism would be to believe
- the opposite, that wages are probably sticky while prices are not. What
- is the rational for the accepting the former, or am I misstating the
- New Keynesian position?
-