In this article, a unified framework is built with the aim at underlying the main features of the first two generations of currency crisis models. It lies in the new open-economy literature. The purpose is to give a new way of understanding the relationship between the current account...

This paper analyses the consequences of the existence of financial frictions and of a banking system on business cycles, in a new Keynesian macroeconomics model. We contrast our conclusions with those obtained in two other existing frameworks (namely the canonical nns model of Woodford, [2003]...

This paper shows that an increase in trade integration has mixed effects on business cycle synchronization. In a two country dsge model with flexible prices we show that an increase in the extensive margin of trade reduces the coupling of business cycles with regard to a trade increase affecting...