Modeling News-Driven International Business Cycles

Paul Beaudry, Martial Dupaigne and Franck Portier ()

No 09-117, TSE Working Papers from Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Abstract: This paper reexamines the question of how to explain business cycle co-movements within and between countries. First, we present two simple theoretically flexible price models to illustrate how and why news shocks can generate robust positive co-movements in economic activity across countries. We also discuss under what conditions the multi-sector version of the model generates appropriate business cycle patterns within countries. Second, we develop a quantitative two-country multi-sector model that is capable of replicating many international business cycle facts. The model is a two-country extension of the closed economy model of Beaudry and Portier [2004], in which there are limited possibilities to reallocate factors between investment and consumption good sectors.

Keywords: business cycles; expectations; international fluctuations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-cba, nep-dge, nep-mac and nep-opm
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