Using a multicountry model with perfect-foresight dynamic optimization by infinitely-lived households, the authors analyze the dynamics of macroeconomic nonmonetary and monetary variables. The authors show that the most patient country initially accumulates foreign debt but eventually...

This article is an attempt to formalize Chapter 17 of Keynes's General Theory using a continuous dynamic optimization model with perfect foresight. I present two subjective interest rates: the time preference rate and the liquidity premium that, respectively, govern the consumption-saving and...

Retaining the basic properties of the Heckscher-Ohlin trade model, namely, free entry and exit, fully integrated international commodity markets, and the same number of sectors with that of factors, the authors develop a two-country model with Cournot oligopoly. In this economy, factor price...