Acharya, Sushant; Challe, Edouard; Coulibaly, Louphou - 2026
We show that incorporating uninsurable countercyclical income risk into a standard international RBC model can qualitatively and quantitatively account for the quantity puzzles in open-economy macro, namely (i) the Backus-Smith puzzle, (ii) the Backus-Kehoe-Kydland puzzle, and (iii) the weak...