A puzzle in international macroeconomics is that observed real exchange rates are highly volatile. Standard international real business cycle (IRBC) models cannot reproduce this fact. We show that TFP processes for the U.S. and the ""rest of the world,"" is characterized by a vector error...

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. THE MODEL -- III. EXTENSIONS TO THE BASELINE MODEL -- IV. ESTIMATION AND MODEL COMPARISON -- V. RESULTS -- VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS -- APPENDIX: THE METROPOLIS-HASTINGS ALGORITHM -- REFERENCES.