TY - JOUR AU - Primiceri,Giorgio E. AU - Schaumburg,Ernst AU - Tambalotti,Andrea TI - Intertemporal Disturbances JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 12243 PY - 2006 Y2 - May 2006 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12243 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12243.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Giorgio Primiceri Department of Economics Northwestern University 318 Andersen Hall 2001 Sheridan Road Evanston, IL 60208-2600 Tel: 847/491-5395 Fax: 847/491-7001 E-Mail: g-primiceri@northwestern.edu Ernst Schaumburg Federal Reserve Bank of New York 33 Liberty Street New York, NY 10045 E-Mail: ernst.schaumburg@ny.frb.org Andrea Tambalotti Federal Reserve Bank of New York 33 Liberty Street, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10045 E-Mail: a.tambalotti@gmail.com AB - Disturbances affecting agents intertemporal substitution are the key driving force of macroeconomic fluctuations. We reach this conclusion exploiting the bond pricing implications of an estimated general equilibrium model of the U.S. business cycle with a rich set of real and nominal frictions. ER -