Investment-Specific Technology Shocks in a Small Open Economy

Millan Mulraine

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Abstract: In this paper we examine the behavioral responses of key macroeconomic variables in Canada to exogenous innovations to investment specific technology. This is done by developing a stylized international real business cycle model which is simulated to explore its ability to shed new light on the dynamic behavior of the standard small open economy. The results indicate that this model can quantitatively replicate the key dynamic features of the post-war Canadian economy, and thus shocks to investment-specific technology can be considered an important propagation mechanism for studying and understanding modern macroeconomic dynamics in small open economies. Moreover, when the model was augmented with an endogenous utilization rate it was able to generate the counter-cyclical behavior of the external accounts - without appealing to an adjustment cost parameter and/or a propagation mechanism whose volatility and persistence are artificially low.

Keywords: Endogenous rate of time preference; Investment-specific shocks; Relative price of investment goods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E37 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-01, Revised 2006-08
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