Uncertainty, Financial Frictions and Nominal Rigidities : A Quantitative Investigation /

Are uncertainty shocks a major source of business cycle fluctuations? This paper studies the effect of a mean preserving shock to the variance of aggregate total factor productivity (macro uncertainty) and to the dispersion of entrepreneurs' idiosyncratic productivity (micro uncertainty) in a f...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cesa-Bianchi, Ambrogio
Other Authors: Corugedo, Emilio Fernandez
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/211
Online Access:Full text available on IMF