This note outlines and discusses some of the strands in the post-Keynesian literature on business cycles. Most post-Keynesians have focused on endogenously generated cycles, but the mechanism varies: some focus on the goods market, others on financial markets, the labor market, or political intervention. The merits of formal modeling of the cycles have also come in for debate. 1 A slightly vers...

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Recessions are associated with sharp increases in turbulence that reshuffles firms' productivity rankings. To study the business cycle implications of shocks, we use Compustat data to construct a measure based on (inverse of) Spearman correlations rankings between adjacent years. We document evidence rises recessions, reallocating labor and capital from high-to low-productivity firms reducing a...

Managers engage in income smoothing either to communicate private information about future earnings to investors (informativeness hypothesis) or to distort financial performance for opportunistic purposes (opportunism hypothesis). Business cycles and the monitoring role of institutional ownership may affect the earnings informativeness of income smoothing. The purpose of this research is to exa...