[size=10.000000pt]Consider a two-period small open economy model with a representative agent. The agent takes the world interestrate as given, and assume it is zero (that is, [size=10.000000pt]r [size=10.000000pt]= 0 [size=10.000000pt]and [size=10.000000pt]R [size=10.000000pt]= 1 [size=10.000000pt].)
[size=10.000000pt]The home agent receives an endowment of [size=10.000000pt]Y[size=7.000000pt]1 [size=10.000000pt]in period1. In period 2, the endowment [size=10.000000pt]Y[size=7.000000pt]2 [size=10.000000pt]is stochastic:
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