This paper presents a potential solution to the home bias puzzle based on a new open economy macroeconomics model. In response to technology shocks, sticky prices generate a negative correlation between labor income and the profits of domestic firms, leading to home bias in equity holdings. In contrast, under flexible prices, labor income and the profits of the domestic firms are positively cor...

In the last few decades, there have been a number of important developments, both theoretical and empirical, in open economy macroeconomics and exchange rate economics (see, for example, Sarno and Taylor, 2001a, b). Also, the increasing availability of high-quality macroeconomic and financial data has stimulated a large amount of empirical work. While our understanding of exchange rates has imp...

The paper developes a uni...ed general equilibrium model that merges three basic building blocks of intertemporal macroeconomics: savings with overlapping generations, capital accumulation and search unemployment. Long-run analytical results for the small open economy show that the e¤ects of integration on unemployment depend on the nature of wage taxation and unemployment compensation. As a se...

In this paper, it is argued that the observed high positive correlation between national savings and investment which is found in the data can in part be explained by shocks to monetary policy. This hypothesis, which is established by reviewing some empirical findings, is tested in a two-country DSGE-model framework in the tradition of the New Open Economy Macroeconomics. The simulation results...

The modern economy began to supplant the traditional economy in several nations in the latter half of the 19th century – and many more in the latter half of the 20th. a system where self-employment and self-finance was typical gave way to a system of companies having various business freedoms and enabling institutions. This was the “great transformation” on which historians and sociologists as ...

Recent international macroeconomics literature on sudden stops faces a puzzling ambiguity. Using essentially the same basic small, open economy model with collateral constraints, some studies successfully predict the empirically observed link between sudden stops and output drops, while others get the opposite result where sudden stops lead to increases in output. In this paper we resolve this ...

a central problem ill empirical macroeconomics is to determine when and how much the exchange rate is misaligned. this paper clarifies and calculates the concept of’ the equilibrium real exchange rate, using a structural vector auto regression (var) model. by imposing long—run restrictions on a var model for iran, lour structural shocks are identified: nominal demand, real demand, supply and oi...