Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration
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Akcigit, Ufuk
Kerr, William
Acemoglu, K. Daron
Date Issued
January 2016
Journal
NBER Macroeconomics Annual
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University of Chicago Press
Citation
Acemoglu, Daron, et al. “Networks and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Exploration.” NBER Macroeconomics Annual, vol. 30, no. 1, Jan. 2016, pp. 273–335.
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Abstract
How small shocks are amplified and propagated through the economy to cause sizable fluctuations is at the heart of much macroeconomic research. Potential mechanisms that have been proposed range from investment and capital accumulation responses in real business-cycle models (e.g., Kydland and Prescott 1982) to Keynesian multipliers (e.g., Diamond 1982; Kiyotaki 1988; Blanchard and Kiyotaki 1987; Hall 2009; Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Rebelo 2011); to credit market frictions facing firms, households, or banks (e.g., Bernanke and Gertler 1989; Kiyotaki and Moore 1997; Guerrieri and Lorenzoni 2012; Mian, Rao, and Sufi 2013); to the role of real and nominal rigidities and their interplay (Ball and Romer 1990); and to the consequences of (potentially inappropriate or constrained) monetary policy (e.g., Friedman and Schwartz 1971; Eggertsson and Woodford 2003; Farhi and Werning 2013).
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
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