International real business cycles

David Backus, Patrick Kehoe and Finn Kydland

No 146, Staff Report from Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Abstract: We ask whether a two-country real business cycle model can account simultaneously for domestic and international aspects of business cycles. With this question in mind, we document a number of discrepancies between theory and data. The most striking discrepancy concerns the correlations of consumption and output across countries. In the data, outputs are generally more highly correlated across countries than consumptions. In the model we see the opposite.

Keywords: Business; cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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Published in Journal of Political Economy (Vol.100, n.4, August 1992, pp. 745-775)

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