Stephen McKnight
Endogenous fluctuations and international business cycles
McKnight, Stephen; Povoledo, Laura
Abstract
We introduce equilibrium indeterminacy into a two-country incomplete asset model with imperfect competition to analyze the role of self-fulfilling expectations or beliefs in explaining international business cycles. We find that, when self-fulfilling beliefs are correlated with technology shocks, the model can account for the countercyclical behaviour observed for the terms of trade and real net exports while simultaneously generating higher volatilities relative to output, as in the data. The choice of the labour-supply elasticity is shown to be critical for generating a negative correlation between the real exchange rate and relative consumption, thereby resolving the Backus–Smith puzzle.
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McKnight, S., & Povoledo, L. (2022). Endogenous fluctuations and international business cycles. Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d'Économique, 55(1), 312-348. https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12580
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 9, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Apr 8, 2022 |
Publication Date | 2022-02 |
Deposit Date | Jul 1, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | May 5, 2022 |
Journal | Canadian Journal of Economics |
Print ISSN | 0008-4085 |
Electronic ISSN | 1540-5982 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 55 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 312-348 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/caje.12580 |
Keywords | Indeterminacy; Sunspots and Self-Fulfilling Expectations; International Business Cy- cles; Net Exports; Terms of Trade; Consumption-Real Exchange Rate Anomaly; Combined Impulse Responses |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7169250 |
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