Some Business Cycle Consequences of Trade Agreements: The Case of the North American Free Trade Agreement

European University Institute Working Paper No. RSCAS 2007/03

27 Pages Posted: 13 Mar 2007

Date Written: 2007

Abstract

This paper investigates the effects of signing a trade agreement on the correlations of the business cycle fluctuations of consumption, investment and output between two countries. We construct an international business cycle model with trade costs and we calibrate it to the United States and Mexico in order to estimate the impact of NAFTA on their comovements. Although there exist some discrepancies between the theory and data in the degree of correlation, the direction of change corresponds to the one in the data.

Keywords: International Business Cycles, Trade Agreements, International Comovements

JEL Classification: E32, F15, F41, F47

Suggested Citation

Bejan, Maria, Some Business Cycle Consequences of Trade Agreements: The Case of the North American Free Trade Agreement (2007). European University Institute Working Paper No. RSCAS 2007/03, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=965531 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.965531

Maria Bejan (Contact Author)

Rice University ( email )

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Houston, TX 77005
United States

HOME PAGE: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~maria.bejan/

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