01854cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF006720 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781455205387 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL International Monetary Fund. Investment : Specific Technology Shocks and International Business Cycles; An Empirical Assessment. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010. 1 online resource (43 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students In this paper, we first introduce investment-specific technology (IST) shocks to an otherwise standard international real business cycle model and show that a thoughtful calibration of them along the lines of Raffo (2009) successfully addresses the "quantity", "international comovement", "Backus-Smith", and "price" puzzles. Second, we use OECD data for the relative price of investment to build and estimate these IST processes across the U.S and a "rest of the world" aggregate, showing that they are cointegrated and well represented by a vector error correction model (VECM). Finally, we demonstrate that when we fit such estimated IST processes in the model instead of the calibrated ones, the shocks are actually not as powerful to explain any of the four montioned puzzles. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/207 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2010/207/001.2010.issue-207-en.xml IMF e-Library