Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/184829 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series No. WP17/29
Publisher: 
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics, Dublin
Abstract: 
The standard neoclassical model predicts that countries with higher productivity growth rates experience sharp increases in investment that are followed by rapid declines. This investment response contrasts with the empirical evidence that suggests a rather hump-shaped investment behavior. In this paper, I present a two-country general equilibrium model that generates hump-shaped investment responses from labor market frictions. In the model, I decompose investment into tradable and non-tradable components and show that an increase in the growth rate of a country results in scarcities of the non-tradable components which raise the relative price of investment goods. These scarcities occur because labor is unable to reallocate quickly between sectors within economies.
Subjects: 
investment prices
capital flows
current account
global imbalances
capital returns
labor market frictions
trade frictions
JEL: 
F21
F32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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