This paper studies a small open economy with two sectors. In a perfect foresight, rational expectation general equilibrium model, with sticky prices in the non-traded goods sector, the current account responses to monetary shocks depend on the elasticity of substitution between consumption and...

The actions by the European Central Bank (ECB) during the global and European crises have triggered a highly controversial debate, in particular in Germany, about the costs and benefits of the chosen policy path. The paper reviews, compares and evaluates the different arguments made in favour...

This paper aims at improving the measure of how much of the business cycle can be explained by technology innovations. For this, we measure the Solow residuals and calibrate a two country real business cycle model for 19 economies. A new procedure is used to determine the elasticity of...

International real business cycle models are not able to account for the high volatility of imports, exports, the trade balance and the terms of trade. By introducing exogenous exchange rate movements in addition to standard technological shocks, the model presented here comes much closer to...

We analyze the contribution of speculation to exchange rate volatility using different assumptions regarding speculation strategies and monetary policy rules. We take the DORNBUSCH (1976) model as the starting point and adopt a slight modification of the money demand specification. With a money...

Despite the transnational character of the Great Depression of the years 1929-33, there are few works in the inter-war literature that deal in depth with the propagation of business cycles across national borders and systemic risks of depression in the world economy. Two notable exceptions are...

Im Zug der internationalen Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise sind die deutschen Exporte stark eingebrochen, inzwischen ist aber eine deutliche Trendwende eingetreten. Die Exporteure profitieren offenbar auch in einem erheblichen Maße von den in zahlreichen Volkswirtschaften aufgelegten...