Habit Persistence and International Comovements

Alexandre Dmitriev and Ivo Krznar

No 23, Working Papers from The Croatian National Bank, Croatia

Abstract: Two-country real business cycle models with time-separable preferences and complete markets predict that cross-country investment correlations are negative. The opposite is true in the data. Backus et al (1995) coined the term quantity anomaly for this phenomenon. This paper proposes to address this discrepancy by allowing the nonseparability of preferences over time. We incorporate internal habit formation in consumption. Our model predicts empirically plausible values of cross-country investment correlation without deteriorating other business cycle statistics. The results are robust to the degree of spillovers and persistence in the specification of productivity shocks.

Keywords: international real business cycles; time nonseparable preferences; habit persistence; investment comovements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 F41 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2010-04
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