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A Real-Business-Cycle Setup with Habits in Leisure: Lessons for Bulgaria (1999-2022)

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  • Aleksandar Vasilev

    (Lincoln International Business School, UK)

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Habits in leisure ala Kydland and Prescott (1982) are introduced into a real-business-cycle setup augmented with a detailed government sector. The model is calibrated to Bulgarian data for the period following the introduction of the currency board arrangement (1999-2022). The quantitative importance of the presence of habits in leisure is investigated for cyclical fluctuations in Bulgaria, and the ability of this extension to address the wage-hours puzzle in particular. The quantitative effect of habits in leisure is found to be small, and often working in the wrong direction. Hours and wages vary much less than in data, wages are more pro-cyclical, and hours are counter-cyclical. Habits in leisure mechanism is thus not a good candidate to solve the hours-wages puzzle in business cycle literature.

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  • Aleksandar Vasilev, 2025. "A Real-Business-Cycle Setup with Habits in Leisure: Lessons for Bulgaria (1999-2022)," Bulgarian Economic Papers bep-2025-01, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski - Bulgaria // Center for Economic Theories and Policies at Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, revised Jan 2025.
    • Handle: RePEc:sko:wpaper:bep-2025-01
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    Keywords

    business cycles; habits in leisure; Bulgaria;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

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