Risk Premium Shocks Can Create Inefficient Recessions
We develop a simple flexible-price model of business cycles driven by spikes in risk premiums. Aggregate shocks increase firms' uninsurable idiosyncratic risk and raise risk premiums. We show that risk shocks can create quantitatively plausible recessions, with contractions in employment, consu...
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Oxford University Press
2022
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