@techreport{5a6b252f03944bada16512975f77f962,
title = "Memory of Recessions",
abstract = "This paper reviews the evidence on the effects of recessions on potential output. In contrast to the assumption in mainstream macroeconomic models that economic fluctuations do not change potential output paths, the evidence is that they do in the case of recessions. A model is proposed to explain this phenomenon, based on an analogy with water flows in porous media. Because of the discrete adjustments made by heterogeneous economic agents in such a world, potential output displays hysteresis with regard to aggregate demand shocks, and thus retains a memory of the shocks associated with recessions.",
keywords = "recessions, permanent effects, hydraulic keynesianism, porous media, hysteresis",
author = "Rod Cross and Hugh McNamara and Alexei Pokrovskii",
note = "Published as a paper within the Discussion Papers in Economics, No. 10-09 (2010) ",
year = "2010",
month = mar,
day = "15",
language = "English",
series = "Strathclyde Discussion Papers in Economics",
publisher = "University of Strathclyde",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "University of Strathclyde",
}