User profiles for S. Boragan Aruoba

Boragan Aruoba

Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
Verified email at econ.umd.edu
Cited by 5306

Real-time measurement of business conditions

SB Aruoba, FX Diebold, C Scotti - Journal of Business & Economic …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
We construct a framework for measuring economic activity at high frequency, potentially in
real time. We use a variety of stock and flow data observed at mixed frequencies (including …

Comparing solution methods for dynamic equilibrium economies

SB Aruoba, J Fernandez-Villaverde… - Journal of Economic …, 2006 - Elsevier
This paper compares solution methods for dynamic equilibrium economies. We compute
and simulate the stochastic neoclassical growth model with leisure choice using first, second, …

Macroeconomic dynamics near the ZLB: A tale of two countries

S Borağan Aruoba, P Cuba-Borda… - The Review of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We compute a sunspot equilibrium in an estimated small-scale New Keynesian model with
a zero lower bound (ZLB) constraint on nominal interest rates and a full set of stochastic …

The macroeconomy and the yield curve: a dynamic latent factor approach

FX Diebold, GD Rudebusch, SB Aruoba - Journal of econometrics, 2006 - Elsevier
We estimate a model that summarizes the yield curve using latent factors (specifically, level,
slope, and curvature) and also includes observable macroeconomic variables (specifically, …

Data revisions are not well behaved

SB Aruoba - Journal of money, credit and banking, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We document the empirical properties of revisions to major macroeconomic variables in the
United States. Our findings suggest that they do not satisfy simple desirable statistical …

A comparison of programming languages in macroeconomics

SB Aruoba, J Fernández-Villaverde - Journal of Economic Dynamics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
We solve the stochastic neoclassical growth model, the workhorse of modern macroeconomics,
using C++14 , Fortran 2008 , Java , Julia , Python , Matlab , Mathematica , and R . We …

Real-time macroeconomic monitoring: Real activity, inflation, and interactions

SB Aruoba, FX Diebold - American Economic Review, 2010 - pubs.aeaweb.org
By S. Borag an Aruoba and Francis X. Diebold* measurement is now voluminous, with
leading reference works featuring it prominently (eg, Dean Croushore 2006), and recently …

Bargaining and the Value of Money

SB Aruoba, G Rocheteau, C Waller - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
… along the lines of Aruoba et al. (2006b). Aruoba, Waller and Wright find that capital is fairly
inelastic to the inflation rate under Nash bargaining whereas it is much more responsive …

Sticky prices versus monetary frictions: An estimation of policy trade-offs

SB Aruoba, F Schorfheide - American Economic Journal …, 2011 - aeaweb.org
We develop a two-sector monetary model with a centralized and decentralized market.
Activities in the centralized market resemble those in a standard New Keynesian economy with …

Money and capital

SB Aruoba, CJ Waller, R Wright - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2011 - Elsevier
The effects of money (anticipated inflation) on capital formation is a classic issue in
macroeconomics. Previous papers adopt reduced-form approaches, putting money in the utility …