Martin Eichenbaum

Lawrence J. Christiano · Martin Eichenbaum · Robert Vigfusson

Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Vigfusson ask whether structural VAR (SVAR) methods reliably recover the dynamic response of hours worked to an identified shock, by generating artificial data from a …

Craig Burnside · Martin Eichenbaum

This 1994 NBER working paper (published in the *American Economic Review*, December 1996, 86(5): 1154-1174) asks whether letting firms vary how intensively they use their existing capital stock -- a …

David Altig · Lawrence J. Christiano · Martin Eichenbaum · Jesper Lindé

Estimated New Keynesian models reconcile inertial inflation with Calvo pricing only by forcing firms to re-optimise prices once every two years or more, which micro price data contradict. Making …

Craig Burnside · Martin Eichenbaum · Sergio Rebelo

This paper builds a general-equilibrium model in which a currency crisis is triggered by prospective government deficits and shows that governments finance the resulting fiscal costs mainly through …

Ariel Burstein · Martin Eichenbaum · Sergio Rebelo

This paper argues, using data from five large devaluation episodes (Argentina 2001, Brazil 1999, Korea 1997, Mexico 1994, Thailand 1997), that the large post-devaluation fall in the real exchange rate …

Lawrence J. Christiano · Martin Eichenbaum

Christiano and Eichenbaum confront a specific shortcoming of the general-equilibrium "liquidity effect" models that had recently been developed to explain why an expansionary monetary shock drives …

Lawrence J. Christiano · Martin Eichenbaum · Charles L. Evans

This chapter in the 1999 Handbook of Macroeconomics (Volume 1) by Lawrence Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum, and Charles Evans surveys and unifies the VAR-based literature on identifying monetary policy …

Lawrence J. Christiano · Martin Eichenbaum · Charles L. Evans

This 2005 Journal of Political Economy paper by Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (CEE) builds and estimates a general-equilibrium model to answer a specific question: what combination of frictions …

Craig Burnside · Martin Eichenbaum · Sergio Rebelo

Studies how governments finance the fiscal costs of "twin" currency-and-banking crises and shows that debt devaluation and implicit or explicit fiscal reform, not just money printing, can explain why …

Craig Burnside · Martin Eichenbaum · Sergio Rebelo

Argues that the 1997 Asian currency crisis was driven by large prospective government deficits -- the anticipated future fiscal cost of bailing out failing banking systems -- rather than by the …

Lawrence Christiano · Martin Eichenbaum · Sergio Rebelo

The government-spending multiplier can be much larger than one when the zero lower bound on the nominal interest rate binds, and the larger the fraction of the spending that occurs while the nominal …