Jacob, Punnoose; Peersman, Gert - In: Journal of International Economics 90 (2013) 2, pp. 302-315
In an estimated two-country DSGE model, we find that shocks to the marginal efficiency of investment account for more than half of the forecast variance of cyclical fluctuations in the US trade balance. Both domestic and foreign marginal efficiency shocks generate a strong effect on the...