International real business cycles with endogenous markup variability

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Davis, J. Scott; Huang, Kevin X. D.
• 署名单位: Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Dallas; Vanderbilt University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2011.06.004
• 发表日期: 2011
• 页码: 302-316
• 关键词: Endogenous markup variability; International Business cycle Co-movement; International Real Business Cycles

摘要

The aggregate impact of decisions made at the level of the individual firm has recently attracted a lot of attention in both the macro and trade literatures. We adapt the benchmark international real business cycle model to a game-theoretic environment to add a channel for the strategic interaction among domestic and foreign firms. We show how the sum of strategic pricing decisions made at the level of the individual firm can have significant effects on the volatility and cross country co-movement of GDP and its components. Specifically we show that the addition of this one channel for strategic interaction leads to a significant increase in the cross-country co-movement of production and investment, as well as a significant decrease in the volatility of investment and the trade balance over the benchmark IRBC model. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.