Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. Chapter 11 Market-Clearing Models of the Business Cycle

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Study Three Market-Clearing Business Cycle Models Real Business Cycle Model Segmented Markets Model Keynesian Coordination Failure Model

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Real Business Cycle Model Business cycles are caused by fluctuations in total factor productivity. There is no role for the government in smoothing business cycles – cycles are just optimal responses to the technology shocks. Model fits the data well.

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure 11.1 Solow Residuals and GDP

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure 11.2 Effects of a Persistent Increase in Total Factor Productivity in the Real Business Cycle Model

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure 11.3 Average Labor Productivity with Total Factor Productivity Shocks

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Table 11.1 Data Versus Predictions of the Real Business Cycle Model with Productivity Shocks

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure 11.4 Procyclical Money Supply in the Real Business Cycle Model with Endogenous Money

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Equation 11.1 Cobb-Douglas production function, with labor share of output of 64%:

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Segmented Markets Model Business cycles can be caused in this model by unanticipated shocks to the money supply. Model exhibits a liquidity effect – the interest rate falls in the short run when the money supply increases. Monetary policy can only improve the functioning of the economy if the central bank has an informational advantage over the private sector. Fit to the data is not as good as with the real business cycle model.

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure 11.5 Effects of an Unanticipated Increase in the Money Supply in the Segmented Markets Model

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Table 11.2 Data Versus Predictions of the Segmented Markets Model with Monetary Shocks

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure 11.6 A Welfare-Improving Role for Active Monetary Policy

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure 11.7 Percentage Deviations from Trend in Money Supply and GDP

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure 11.8 Real and Nominal Interest Rates

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure 11.9 Relative Price of Energy

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Keynesian Coordination Failure Model Strategic complementarities imply that the aggregate production function has increasing returns to scale, and the labor demand function can be upward sloping. There can be multiple equilibria. In an example, the model fits the data as well as the real business cycle model. GDP fluctuates in the model because of self-fulfilling waves of optimism and pessimism.

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure A Production Function with Increasing Returns to Scale

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure Aggregate Labor Demand with Sufficient Increasing Returns to Scale

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure The Labor Market in the Coordination Failure Model

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure The Output Supply Curve in the Coordination Failure Model

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure Multiple Equilibria in the Coordination Failure Model

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Table 11.3 Data Versus Predictions of the Coordination Failure Model

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure Average Labor Productivity in the Keynesian Coordination Failure Model

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure Procyclical Money Supply in the Coordination Failure Model

Copyright © 2008 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved Figure Stabilizing Fiscal Policy in the Coordination Failure Model