Business cycles with staggered prices and international trade in intermediate inputs

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Huang, Kevin X. D.; Liu, Zheng
• 署名单位: Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Philadelphia; Vanderbilt University; Emory University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF MONETARY ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-3932
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.05.016
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 1271-1289
• 关键词: multiple stages of production; international trade in intermediate goods; staggered prices; international quantity correlations; Exchange rates

摘要

International trade in intermediate inputs and, increasingly, in goods produced at multiple stages of processing has been widely studied in the real trade literature. We assess the role of this feature of modern world trade in accounting for some stylized facts about international business cycles. Our model with staggered prices and trade in intermediates across four stages of processing does well in explaining the observed international correlations in aggregate quantities, and it performs much bet, ter than a single-stage model with no trade in intermediates. The model in itself does not provide a full account of the cyclical behavior of the real exchange rate, but, compared to the single-stage model, it moves in the right direction. (C) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.