Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17900 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1158
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
We identify measures of shocks to total factor productivity and preferences from two real business cycle models and subject them to Granger causality tests to see whether they can be considered exogenous to other plausible sources of the German business cycle. For the period 60.i to 89.iv no variable Granger causes the shock measures, and for the period 70.i to 01.iv, only M3 does. We attribute the latter result to the breaks in our time series associated with the German reunification in 1990 and the European Monetary Union in 1999. We, thus, find no evidence to reject the exogeneity of our shock measures. Our findings contrast with similar studies for other countries that question the exogeneity of either productivity or preference shocks.
Subjects: 
Real Business Cycles
Solow Residual
Granger Causality
JEL: 
O47
E32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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