01725cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF007225 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781455259380 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Business Cycles in Emerging Markets : The Role of Durable Goods and Financial Frictions. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011. 1 online resource (38 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper examines how durable goods and financial frictions shape the business cycle of a small open economy subject to shocks to trend and transitory shocks. In the data, nondurable consumption is not as volatile as income for both developed and emerging market economies. The simulation of the model implies that shocks to trend play a less important role than previously documented. Financial frictions improve the ability of the model to match some key business cycle properties of emerging economies. A countercyclical borrowing premium interacts with the nature of durable goods delivering highly volatile consumption and very countercyclical net exports. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/133 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2011/133/001.2011.issue-133-en.xml IMF e-Library