A class of real business cycle models suggests that shocks to technology can explain aggregate fluctuations in output and employment. This paper begins from the premise that shocks to productivity may vary across industries but are unlikely to vary systematically across national boundaries for a...

This paper studies the international transmission of business cycles by developing a two-country real business-cycle model and confronting it with a broad set of empirical observations. These observations include variances and covariances of output, labor, consumption, employment, and investment...

The effects of monetary disturbances differ across sectors when some prices can adjust more rapidly than others. In a model economy with two sectors possessing different speeds of price adjustment, monetary shocks generate inverse movements of real interest rates, alter relative prices, and...