Home production, labor wedges, and international business cycles

Loukas Karabarbounis

Journal of Monetary Economics, 2014, vol. 64, issue C, 68-84

Abstract: Non-separabilities due to home production break the link between market consumption and its marginal utility and help explain several stylized facts of the open economy. In an estimated two-country model with complete asset markets in which home production generates a labor wedge that mimics its empirical counterpart, output is more correlated than consumption across countries, labor inputs and labor wedges are positively correlated across countries, and relative market consumption is negatively related to the real exchange rate. Evidence from time use surveys corroborates some of the predictions of the model.

Keywords: Home production; Labor wedge; International business cycles; Real exchange rate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2014.02.001

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