Explaining International Comovements of Output and Asset Returns : The Role of Money and Nominal Rigidities /

Empirically, output and asset returns are highly positively correlated across the United States and the other major industrialized countries. Standard business cycle models that assume flexible prices and wages, in the Real Business Cycle tradition, have great difficulties explaining this fact. This...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kollman, Robert
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/084
Online Access:Full text available on IMF