Hirakata, Naohisa; Kurozumi, Takushi - Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan - 2013
In the wake of the gGreat Recessionh of 2007-09, recent studies have emphasized the importance of the ginternational finance multiplier (IFM)h mechanism for inter- national business cycles, using calibrated two-country models. This paper develops and estimates a two- country model with the IFM...