Trade, Unemployment, and Monetary Policy

For helpful comments and discussions, we thank George Alessandria, Paul Bergin, Giovanni Calice, Lilia Cavallari, Giancarlo Corsetti, Ippei Fujiwara, Stefano Gnocchi, François Langot, Giovanni Lombardo, Tommaso Monacelli, Paolo Pesenti, Guillaume Rocheteau, Christopher Sims, Martin Uribe, Juanyi Xu, and participants in seminars and conferences at Bundesbank, California State University-Fullerton, Canadian Economic Association 2014, Catholic University-Milan, Central Bank of Chile, CEPR ESSIM 2014, the ECB-Central Bank of Turkey Conference on "Modelling International Linkages and Spillovers," Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKUST-Keio University-HKIMR Conference on "Exchange Rates and Macroeconomics," Koç University, Korean Economic Association 15th International Conference, Notre Dame University, NYU Stern-Atlanta Fed Conference on International Economics 2012, OECD, Ohio State University, SED 2013, Texas A&M University, University of California-Davis, University of California-Irvine, University of Michigan, University of Sherbrooke, University of Southern California, University of Toronto, University of Washington, and Washington State University. Ghironi thanks the NSF for financial support through a grant to the NBER when this project was initially developed. Work on this paper was done while Ghironi was a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The support of this institution is also acknowledged with gratitude. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Centre for Economic Policy Research.