The Stylized Facts about the Business Cycle
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Nominal GDP, C, I and G
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Nominal GDP Nominal Consumption Nominal Investment Nominal Gov.Spend.
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Real GDP, C, I and G
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Fraction of GDP allocated to C, I and G
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Real GDP and Trend GDP
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Log Real GDP Trend Log Real GDP
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Cyclical GDP
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Cyclical GDP and C
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Cyclical GDP and C
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Cyclical GDP and I
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Cyclical GDP and I
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Cyclical GDP and G
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Cyclical Log Real GDP Cyclical Log Government Spending
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Cyclical GDP and G
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Employment
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Cyclical GDP and APL
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Table 2: Cyclical Behavior of the US Economy: Deviations from Trend of Expenditure Components, 1954:I-1991:II
Cross-Correlation of Output with:
Variable
SD X(-3) X(-2) X(-1) X X(+1) X(+2) X(+3)
GDP 1.72 .38 .63 .85 1 .85 .63 .38
C 1.27 .57 .72 .82 .83 .67 .46 .22
I 8.24 .38 .59 .79 .91 .76 .50 .22
G 2.04 -.03 -.01 -.01 .04 .08 .11 .16
Exp 5.53 -.29 -.10 .15 .37 .50 .54 .54
Imp 4.88 .31 .45 .62 .72 .71 .52 .28
Data Source: NIPA. All data are deflated and HP filtered
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Table 1: Cyclical Behavior of U.S. Labor Market Aggregates, 1954:I-1991:II
Cross-Correlation of Real GDP with:
VariableVolatilit
y (%SD)
X(-5) X(-4) X(-3) X(-2) X(-1) XX(+1
)X(+2
)X(+3
)X(+4
)X(+5
)
Real Gross Domestic Product
1.72 -.02 .16 .38 .63 .85 .85 .63 .38 .16 -.02
Hours (Household Survey) 1.49 -.10 .05 .25 .46 .70 .86 .85 .74 .58 .38 .17
Employment 1.09 -.17 -.03 .16 .38 .63 .83 .88 .80 .65 .46 .25
Hours per Worker 0.54 .07 .20 .36 .49 .64 .70 .58 .42 .28 .12 -.02
GDP/Hours 0.87 .12 .23 .33 .47 .50 .51 .22 -.01 -.24 -.32 -.34
Average Hourly Real Compensation(Business Sector)
0.93 .35 .39 .41 .43 .41 .35 .25 .16 .05 -0.7 -.18
Real Employee Compensation (NIPA)/Hours (Household Survey)
0.65 -.11 -.11 -.13 .06 .02 .10 .13 .14 .10 .08 .04
Cross-Correlation of *:
Employment and Average Labor Productivity** (X)
1.09 .73 .68 .57 .35 .09 -.15 -.32
Vacanciesand Unemployment (X)
12.54 -.36 -.61 -.82 -.95 -.93 -.77 -.54
GNP and Labor Share (X) 1.07 -.61 -.73 -.78 -.74 -.48 -.22 -.00
Source: Finn E. Kydland (1995), (*) Source: M. Merz (1995) using CITIBASE data for the period 1959:I-1988:II, (**) Average Labor Productivity is defined as Real GNP over Employment
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The Stylized Facts about the Business Cycle
• Output
– fluctuations in GDP are persistent
• Expenditure
– consumption is procyclical and less volatile than GDP
– investment is procyclical and 5 times as volatile as GDP
– government expenditures are acyclical
• Productivity
– the average output per hour of work is somewhat procyclical and leads the cycle
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The Stylized Facts about the Business Cycle
• Labor Markets
– employment volatility accounts for 2/3 of the volatility of total hours
– hours-per-worker volatility accounts for 1/3 of the volatility of total hours
– employment is procyclical lags the cycle
– hors-per-worker are procyclical and lead the cycle
– total hours are procyclical and almost as volatile as GDP
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References
• Chapters 2 and 3 in Williamson
• Check-out the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research http://www.nber.org
• Check-out the book "Frontier of Business Cycle Research," ed. T. Cooley, 1995, Princeton University Press