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5.2. CALIBRATING A TWO-COUNTRY MODEL 1490.050-0.05GDP (broken)Consumption-0.1-0.15Investment-0.273 75 77 79 81 83 85 87 89 91 93 95Figure 5.3: Hodrick-Prescott Þltered cyclical observations from themodel. Investment has been shifted down by 0.10 for visual clarity.This coarse overview of the one sector real business cycle modelshows that there are some aspects of the data that the model does notexplain. This is not surprising. Perhaps it is more surprising is howwell it actually does in generating ‘realistic’ time series dynamics of thedata. In any event, this perfect markets—no nominal rigidities Arrow-Debreu model serves as a useful benchmark against which reÞnementscan be judged.5.2 Calibrating a Two-Country ModelWe now add a second country. This two-country model is a specialcase of Backus et. al. [5]. Each county produces the same good so wewill not be able to study terms of trade or real exchange rate issues.The presence of country-speciÞc idiosyncratic shocks give an incentiveto individuals in the two countries to trade as a means to insure each

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