The international wealth channel: a global error-correcting analysis

Nils Holinski () and Robert Vermeulen

Empirical Economics, 2012, vol. 43, issue 3, 985-1010

Abstract: This article investigates empirically whether shocks to asset prices transmit into the trade balance through consumption and investment for a group of five of the world’s most industrialized countries. We refer to this transmission channel as the international wealth channel and estimate a GVAR model including 29 countries with quarterly data over the period 1981Q1–2006Q4. Generalized impulse response functions show that after a negative stock price shock US and UK consumption decreases, followed by an improving trade balance. This pattern is also visible for France, but not for Germany and Japan. Stock price decreases are only associated with decreasing investment and an improving trade balance in the UK. For housing, we do find that a negative shock to UK housing prices decreases domestic investment and improves the trade balance. However, this pattern is not visible in the other countries. Finally, a domestic negative real exchange rate shock only has a significantly positive impact on the US trade balance. Copyright The Author(s) 2012

Keywords: Trade balance; Wealth effect; Global imbalances; GVAR; International transmission; E21; F15; F41; G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1007/s00181-011-0514-8

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