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RBC Models and the Hours-Wages Puzzle: Puzzle Solved!

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This paper shows that a modified real business cycle (RBC) model, one that includes home production and fiscal spending shocks, can solve one of the RBC puzzles and generates zero correlation between wages and hours. In addition, the micro-founded model presented here provides a sound theoretical model to analyze fiscal policy in a neoclassical framework and is able to capture many aspects of the data that the benchmark RBC model was missing.

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  • Vasilev, Aleksandar, 2015. "RBC Models and the Hours-Wages Puzzle: Puzzle Solved!," EconStor Preprints 142466, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
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    1. Aleksandar VASILEV, 2017. "Aggregation With Sequential Indivisible And Continuous Labor Supply Decisions And An Informal Sector," Theoretical and Practical Research in the Economic Fields, ASERS Publishing, vol. 8(2), pages 144-148.

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    Keywords

    fiscal policy; home production; government spending shock; indivisible labor;
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    • C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques
    • E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy; Modern Monetary Theory
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

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