Business cycles tend to comove across countries. However, standard models that attribute comovement to propagation of exogenous shocks struggle to generate a level of co-movement that is as high as in the data. In this paper, we consider models that produce business cycles endogenously, through...

Business cycles tend to comove across countries. However, standard models that attribute comovement to propagation of exogenous shocks struggle to generate a level of co-movement that is as high as in the data. In this paper, we consider models that produce business cycles endogenously, through...

The empirical analysis of fish markets always reveals strong price dispersion for homogeneous or very similar goods. The problem is how to explain this price dispersion on a market where there is no evident arbitrage. Explanations proposed by different authors include differences in...