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Imported Capital Goods and Open Economy Business Cycles

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  • Reinout De Bock

    (Economics Northwestern University)

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This paper examines the business cycle properties of capital goods trade in open economies. Capital good imports and exports are twice as volatile as investment. Equipment trade is asymmetric in that small countries are net importers. Countercyclical trade balances are associated with procyclical equipment imports rather than countercyclical exports. Both observations hold a fortiori for emerging economies. Real interest rates are acyclical in developed economies. In emerging economies real interest rates are countercyclical and there is a strong positive correlation of equipment imports with real interest rates. I then examine if these features are consistent with properly calibrated open economy business cycle models

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  • Reinout De Bock, 2006. "Imported Capital Goods and Open Economy Business Cycles," 2006 Meeting Papers 706, Society for Economic Dynamics.
    • Handle: RePEc:red:sed006:706
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    Keywords

    International real business cycles; Small open economy;

    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • 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

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