Economic Policy Review
The Impact of Foreign Slowdown on the U.S. Economy: An Open Economy DSGE Perspective
Volume 26, Number 4
October 2020

JEL classification: E32, E44, F41, F44

Authors: Ozge Akinci, Gianluca Benigno, and Paolo Pesenti

Over the course of 2018, economic activity in major advanced foreign economies and emerging markets—including the Euro area and China—decelerated noticeably. In parallel, foreign growth projections for 2019 and 2020 were revised down, signaling potentially large headwinds for the U.S economy over the medium term. In this article, we use a multi-country simulation model to quantify economic spillovers to the United States from a slowdown originating in the Euro area. Next, we compare these results with spillovers from a slowdown originating in China. We find that spillovers to the U.S. economy from a slowdown in the Euro area are sizable, mainly due to lack of monetary policy space in the region along with greater financial integration between Europe and the United States. Standard trade-related spillovers from a slowdown in China to the United States, instead, are quantitatively limited.

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Author Disclosure Statement(s)
Ozge Akinci
I declare that I have no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the article “The Impact of Foreign Slowdown on the U.S. Economy: An Open Economy DSGE Perspective,” to be published in the Economic Policy Review.

Gianluca Benigno
The author declares that he has no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper.

Paolo Pesenti
As regards the article “The Impact of Foreign Slowdown on the U.S. Economy: An Open Economy DSGE Perspective,” to be published in the Economic Policy Review, this coauthor declares that he has no relevant or material financial interests that relate to the research described in this paper.
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