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example, can make the effect of a traded-goods productivity improvement on the real exchange rate negative or positive, as … on the relationship between productivity and the real exchange rate. -- Exchange rates ; Productivity …
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example, can make the effect of a traded-goods productivity improvement on the real exchange rate negative or positive, as … on the relationship between productivity and the real exchange rate. …
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corporate taxes on productivity and investment. Applying a differences-in-differences estimation strategy which exploits … effect on productivity at the firm level. The effect is negative across firms of different size and age classes except for …. This may partly explain the negative productivity effects of corporate taxes if new capital goods embody technological …
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This report provides a detailed technical description of an updated version of the Terms-of-Trade Economic Model (ToTEM II), which replaced ToTEM (Murchison and Rennison 2006) in June 2011 as the Bank of Canada’s quarterly projection model for Canada. ToTEM has been improved along a number of...
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The authors provide a detailed technical description of the Terms-of-Trade Economic Model (ToTEM), which replaced the Quarterly Projection Model (QPM) in December 2005 as the Bank's principal projection and policy-analysis model for the Canadian economy. ToTEM is an open-economy, dynamic...
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realistic parameter values, the model generates a blip in inflation of the same magnitude observed in the data"--Federal Reserve …
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this phenomenon, which has been observed for several other countries, may be due to a change in the behaviour of inflation …. Specifically, moving from a high to a low-inflation environment has reduced the expected persistence of cost changes and, by … policy has responded more aggressively to inflation deviations over the low pass-through period relative to the high pass …
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In emerging-market economies, real exchange rate adjustment is critical for maintaining a sustainable current account position and thereby for helping to reduce macroeconomic and financial instability. The authors examine empirically two related hypotheses: (i) that real exchange rate...
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We use the results of a survey conducted on a sample of 3,013 exporting firms located in 5 EMU countries to explore the link between the invoicing currency of exports, firm size, and hedging. About 90% of firms in the sample invoice exports in their (producer) currency. Large firms are more...
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This paper examines the impact of a collapsing exchange rate regime on output in an open economy in which shocks to capital flows and exports predominate. A sticky-price rational expectations model is used to compare the variability of output under the collapsing regime to that under alternative...
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