Home Production Meets Time to Build

An innovation in this paper is to introduce a time‐to‐build technology for the production of market capital into a model with home production. Our main finding is that the two anomalies that have plagued all household production models—the positive correlation between business and household investme...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Veröffentlicht in:The Journal of political economy 2001-10, Vol.109 (5), p.1115-1131
Hauptverfasser: Gomme, Paul, Kydland, Finn E., Rupert, Peter
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:Volltext
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
Beschreibung
Zusammenfassung:An innovation in this paper is to introduce a time‐to‐build technology for the production of market capital into a model with home production. Our main finding is that the two anomalies that have plagued all household production models—the positive correlation between business and household investment, and household investment's leading business investment over the business cycle—are resolved when time to build is added.
ISSN:0022-3808
1537-534X
DOI:10.1086/322829