Provide a graphical analysis of the effect of a temporary but persistent increase in total factor productivity (TFP) on current employment, current output, current investment, current real wages, current prices and current real interest rates in terms of the Real Business Cycle Model. Explain why each of the curves in your analysis shifts in response to the shock. Do we observe changes in total factor productivity? How are they calculated? Why do we assume that changes to TFP are persistent?

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  1. Provide a graphical analysis of the effect of a temporary but persistent increase in total factor productivity (TFP) on current employment, current output, current investment, current real wages, current prices and current real interest rates in terms of the Real Business Cycle Model. Explain why each of the curves in your analysis shifts in response to the shock.
  2. Do we observe changes in total factor productivity? How are they calculated?
  3. Why do we assume that changes to TFP are persistent?
  4. Compare graphically the behaviour of the current Average Productivity of Labour and Employment in the Real Business Cycles Model and the Coordination Failure Model following a temporary increase in current total factor productivity. Are the two different and how do these results compare to the data?

 

 

 

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