Emerging Market Business Cycles : The Role of Labor Market Frictions /

Emerging economies are characterized by higher consumption and real wage variability relative to output and a strongly countercyclical current account. A real business cycle model of a small open economy that embeds a Mortensen-Pissarides type of search-matching frictions and countercyclical interes...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boz, Emine
Other Authors: Durdu, Ceyhun Bora, Li, Nan
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/237
Online Access:Full text available on IMF