A sticky-price model is used to motivate a structural VAR analysis of the current account the and the real exchange rate for seven major industrialized countries (the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Japan, Germany, France, and Italy). The analysis is distinguished from previous work in that it adopts...

A sticky-price model is used to motivate a structural VAR analysis of the current account and the real exchange rate for seven major industrialized countries (the US, Canada, the UK, Japan, Germany, France and Italy). The analysis is distinguished from previous work in that it adopts minimal...