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 Description of the computer and data codes for the paper:
 "Sources of Business Fluctuations: Financial or Technology Shocks?"
 by Sohei Kaihatsu and Takushi Kurozumi.
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To run the codes successfully, you need to install Dynare version 4.
Dynare can be downloaded from the website:
http://www.dynare.org/download/

[sbffts.mod]: Dynare file containing the equations of the model for estimation
Initial values for estimation and some fixed parameters can be found in the code.
The variance decompositions and the impulse responses in the paper can be replicated after a run of stochastic simulation (stoch_simul) in the code.
The historical decompositions in the paper can be replicated after a run of shock decomposition (shock_decomposition) in the code.

[datasbffts.m]: Matlab file containing the dataset used by "sbffts.mod"