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SIX PUZZLES

SIX PUZZLES. By Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff. Feldstein-Horioka Home-Bias in Trade (Trefler’s “MissingTrade”) Consumption-Correlation Puzzle Purchasing-Power Parity Puzzle Meese-Rogoff Forecasting Puzzle Home-Bias in Portfolio. The Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle:

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SIX PUZZLES

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  1. SIX PUZZLES By Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff • Feldstein-Horioka • Home-Bias in Trade (Trefler’s “MissingTrade”) • Consumption-Correlation Puzzle • Purchasing-Power Parity Puzzle • Meese-Rogoff Forecasting Puzzle • Home-Bias in Portfolio

  2. The Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle: long time average national saving rates are highly correlated with similar averages of domestic investment rates for OECD countries with high degree of capital mobility, which seperates saving and investment decisions. • The intertemporal-persistent shock explanation • The portfolio asymmetric- information explanation • The trade-costs explanation:

  3. A Two-Good Model

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