Journal Article

·2013 OPEN ACCESS

Welfare Costs of Business Cycles in Turkey

Ensar Yılmaz YTU

Metroeconomica

Abstract

Abstract How large are welfare costs related to economic aggregate fluctuations is a topic of great concern among economists at least since L ucas's (1987) model. Our analysis assesses the magnitude of such costs for T urkey by means of two approaches: aggregate and disaggregate. The former approach uses aggregate data employing three alternative trend‐cycle decomposition methods which are L ucas' classical set‐up with deterministic linear trend for consumption, H odrick and P rescott filter and one in which consumption trend is stochastic and whose implementation is performed using B everidge– N elson decomposition. The results of both approaches suggest that Turkey has high welfare costs associated with business cycles.

Keywords

Aggregate (composite) Business cycle Consumption (sociology) Economics Welfare Econometrics Decomposition Aggregate data Production (economics) Filter (signal processing) Set (abstract data type) Microeconomics Macroeconomics Computer science Statistics Mathematics

Subject Areas

Monetary Policy and Economic Impact ·General Economics, Econometrics and Finance ·Social Sciences
Market Dynamics and Volatility ·Economics and Econometrics ·Social Sciences
Fiscal Policies and Political Economy ·Economics and Econometrics ·Social Sciences

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