Bhattacharjee, Arnab; Sun, Qi; Chadha, Jagjit S. - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2008
We show that a flex-price two-sector open economy DSGE model can explain the poor degree of international risk sharing and exchange rate disconnect. We use a suite of model evaluation measures and examine the role of (i) traded and non-traded sectors; (ii) financial market incompleteness; (iii)...