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Productivity Growth and the Trade Balance in the 1990s: the Role of Evolving Perceptions

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  • Luca Guerrieri
  • Christopher Erceg

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This paper examines the importance of productivity shocks in accounting for salient features of U.S. economic developments during the second half of the 1990s, including the surge in investment spending, the substantial deterioration of the trade balance, and the modest decline in inflation. We calibrate a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model and show that agents' perceptions regarding the permanence of the shocks that occurred in the late 1990s are crucial in accounting for these developments. Within a signal extraction framework, we attempt to match survey data on long-term projected output growth. Our calibrated model can account for about two-thirds of the rise in the investment share of output, and over half of the deterioration in the trade balance over this period

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  • Luca Guerrieri & Christopher Erceg, 2004. "Productivity Growth and the Trade Balance in the 1990s: the Role of Evolving Perceptions," 2004 Meeting Papers 719, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    • Handle: RePEc:red:sed004:719
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    Cited by:

    1. Engel, Charles & Rogers, John H., 2006. "The U.S. current account deficit and the expected share of world output," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 53(5), pages 1063-1093, July.
    2. Laxton, Douglas & Pesenti, Paolo, 2003. "Monetary rules for small, open, emerging economies," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 50(5), pages 1109-1146, July.

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    Keywords

    International Business Cycle; Technology Shocks; Trade Balance;
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    JEL classification:

    • F32 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements
    • F41 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Open Economy Macroeconomics
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

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