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Delve into the intricate world of international finance with "SIX PUZZLES" by Maurice Obstfeld and Kenneth Rogoff. Explore the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle, Home Bias in Trade, Consumption Correlation, Purchasing Power Parity, Meese-Rogoff Forecasting, and Home Bias in Portfolio. Unravel the complexities of national saving rates, domestic investment, intertemporal shocks, asymmetric information, and trade costs in global economics.
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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: 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: