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Dées, Stéphane; Zorell, Nico - 2011

Drawing on a large sample of countries, this paper explores whether closer economic ties between countries foster business cycle synchronisation and disentangles the role of the various channels, including trade and financial linkages as well as the similarity in sectoral specialisation....

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International risk-sharing and the transmission of productivity shocks

Corsetti, Giancarlo; Dedola, Luca; Leduc, Sylvain - 2004

A central puzzle in international finance is that real exchange rates are volatile and, in stark contradiction to effcient risk-sharing, negatively correlated with cross-country consumption ratios. This paper shows that incomplete asset markets and a low price elasticity of tradables can account...

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Financial frictions and optimal monetary policy in an open economy

Kolasa, Marcin; Lombardo, Giovanni - 2011

in our model if credit frictions are absent) becomes excessively procyclical in response to positive productivity shocks …

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Production interdependence and welfare

Huang, Kevin X. D.; Liu, Zheng - 2004

The international welfare effects of a country's monetary policy shocks have been controversial in the new open economy macro (i.e., NOEM) literature. While a unilateral monetary expansion increases the production efficiency in each country, it affects the terms of trade in favor of one country...

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Monetary policy in a low pass-through environment

Monacelli, Tommaso - 2003

We study the effects on the optimal monetary policy design problem of allowing for deviations from the law of one price in import goods prices. We reach three basic results. First, incomplete pass-through renders the analysis of monetary policy of an open economy fundamentally different from the...

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Real convergence and its illusions

Kolasa, Marcin - 2010

This paper uses the EAGLE, a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model, to illustrate dynamic adjustments in a small open economy undergoing real convergence. We consider the effects of productivity catch-up and misperceptions about future productivity developments. Our results indicate...

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Chronicle of currency collapses

Bussière, Matthieu; Saxena, Sweta C.; Tovar, Camilo E. - 2010

The impact of currency collapses (i.e. large nominal depreciations or devaluations) on real output remains unsettled in the empirical macroeconomic literature. This paper provides new empirical evidence on this relationship using a dataset for 108 emerging and developing economies for the period...

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The great inflation, limited asset markets participation and aggregate demand

Bilbiie, Florin O. - 2004

When enough agents do not participate in asset markets, the slope of the aggregate demand curve is reversed. Monetary policy should be passive, to ensure equilibrium determinacy and to minimize variations in output and inflation. This paper presents evidence that asset markets participation in...

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Finance and diversification

Manganelli, Simone; Popov, Alexander - 2010

We study how financial market efficiency affects a measure of diversification of output across industrial sectors borrowed from the portfolio allocation literature. Using data on sector-level value added for a wide cross section of countries and for various levels of disaggregation, we construct...

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a new look at the credit channel of monetary policy

Ciccarelli, Matteo; Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis - 2010

Any empirical analysis of the credit channel faces a key identification challenge: changes in credit supply and demand … unique Euro area bank lending surveys. Embedding this information within a standard VAR model, we find that: (1) the credit … channel is active through the balance-sheets of households, firms and banks; (2) the credit channel amplifies the impact of a …

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