Microeconomic origins of macroeconomic tail risks /

We document that even though the normal distribution is a good approximation to the nature of aggregate fluctuations, it severely under-predicts the frequency of large economic downturns. We then provide a model that can explain these facts simultaneously. Our model show that the propagation of micr...

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Main Author: Acemoglu, Daron
Corporate Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Economics
Other Authors: Ozdaglar, Asuman E, Tahbaz-Salehi, Alireza
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, [2014]
Series:Working paper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics) ; no. 15-01
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Call Number: HB31.M415 no.15-01