How Different Is the Cyclical Behavior of Home Production Across Countries? /

This paper studies stylized business cycle properties of household production in four industrialized countries (Canada, the United States, Germany, and Japan). We employ a dynamic small open economy business cycle model that incorporates a household production sector. We use the model to generate da...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kose, Ayhan
Other Authors: Blankenau, William
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/046
Online Access:Full text available on IMF