Business Cycles in Small Developed Economies : The Role of Terms of Trade and Foreign Interest Rate Shocks /

Empirical evidence for small developed economies finds that consumption is procyclical and as volatile as output, and real net exports are coutercyclical. Earlier studies have not been able to reproduce these regularities in a DSGE small open economy model when productivity shocks drive the business...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guajardo, Jaime
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2008/086
Online Access:Full text available on IMF