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Review of Economic Studies Vol. 52 No. 4 1985

Oil Price Shocks, Unemployment, Investment and the Current Account: An Intertemporal Disequilibrium Analysis

Sweder van Wijnbergen

World Bank

Abstract

Recent work on macroeconomics of price increases of intermediate imports while theoretically rigorous and elegant, is still unable to explain the stylized facts. This paper attempts to remedy the shortcomings of earlier papers by using a two-period model to properly analyse investment and savings behaviour and hence the current account. The model also incorporates disequilibrium in first-period labour and goods markets to compare the response of countries in different disequilibrium regimes to shocks in intermediate input prices.

DOI
10.2307/2297736
Volume
52
Issue
4
Pages
627
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