On the role of money in a business cycle model of a small open economyThe case of Spain
ISSN: 1435-5469
Ano de publicación: 2002
Volume: 4
Número: 3
Páxinas: 159-177
Tipo: Artigo
Outras publicacións en: Spanish economic review
Resumo
Abstract. This paper examines the consequences of introducing a cash-in-advance constraint into a small open economy business cycle model for the Spanish case. A business cycle model is built extending Correia, Neves and Rebelo's (1995) small open economy framework and Cooley and Hansen's (1995) monetary economy. Money is introduced through a cash-in-advance constraint. The stochastic simulation of the model and its comparison to Spanish data show that the model is able to mimic i) the Dolado et al. puzzle, that is, the high volatility of private consumption for this economy; ii) the Dunlop-Tarshis observation, i.e., the negative correlation between real wages and hours worked; and iii) some cyclical features of the nominal dimension.