This paper analyzes the international transmission of economic distur-bances in a three-country world where two countries have no macroeconomic impact on a third country but are large enough to influence each other un-der fixed and flexible exchange rates. While the fixed exchange rate (FER)...

In this paper, we compare the empirical properties of closed- and open-economy DSGEmodels estimated on Euro area data. The comparison is made along several dimensions;we examine the models in terms of their marginal likelihoods, forecasting performance,variance decompositions, and their...