Kawai, Masahiro; Kasuya, Munehisa; Hirakata, Naohisa - Bank of Japan - 2003
To analyze the relative price of nontradable to tradable goods, we build a two-country, two-sector dynamic open macro model that in based on consumers' intertemporal optimizing behavior. The model predicts that the relative price of nontradable goods depends on the cross-sectoral productivity...