Business cycles with staggered prices and international trade in intermediate inputs |
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Authors: | Kevin X.D. Huang Zheng Liu |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37235, USA b Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA c CIRPÉE, Canada d Department of Economics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA |
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Abstract: | 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 better 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. |
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Keywords: | E32 F31 F41 |
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