Trade flows and the international business cycle

  • We investigate into the role of the trade channel as important determinant of a country's current account position and the degree of business cycle synchronization with the rest of the world by comparing the predictions of two types of DGE models. It is shown that the behavior of a country's external balance and the international transmission of shocks depends amongst other things on two factors: i) the magnitude of trade interdependence, ii) the degree of substitutability between importable and domestically-produced goods. Using time series data on bilateral trade flows, we estimate the magnitude of trade interdependence and the elasticity of substitution between importable and domestic goods for the G7 countries. Given these estimates, idiosyncratic supply shocks potentially induce changes in the current account and foreign output that vary in direction and magnitude across G7 countries. The relationship between the magnitude of foreign trade and the import substitutability with various correlation measures is examined empirically in a cross-sectional dimension. First Draft, July 2001. Final Draft, November 2001. Klassifikation: E32, F41

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Author:Daniel Gross
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-9890
Parent Title (German):Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2001,12
Series (Serial Number):CFS working paper series (2001, 12)
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Year of Completion:2001
Year of first Publication:2001
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2005/06/13
Tag:Bilateral Trade Flows; Current Account; DGE Models; Intratemporal Elasticity of Substitution
GND Keyword:G-7-Staaten; Internationaler Konjunkturzusammenhang; Außenwirtschaft; Welthandel; Weltwirtschaft; Import; Substitutionselastizität; Leistungsbilanz; Schock <Wirtschaft>; Realer-Konjunkturzyklus-Theorie; Schätzung
Issue:Version November 2001
Page Number:56
Note:
First Draft, July 2001 ;Final Draft, November 2001
HeBIS-PPN:200274333
Institutes:Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht