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Motivated by the long-standing debate on the pros and cons of competitive devaluation, we propose a new perspective on how monetary and exchange rate policies can contribute to a country's international competitiveness. We refocus the analysis on the implications of monetary stabilization for a...
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How strong are strategic complementarities in price setting across firms? In this paper, we provide a direct empirical estimate of firm price responses to changes in prices of their competitors. We develop a general framework and an empirical identification strategy to estimate the elasticities...
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,' developed in trade theory to analyze the benefits from promoting entry of domestic firms in the manufacturing sector. In a … trade predicted by the theory are present in data and are quantitatively important …
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The paper provides an integrated analysis of globalization effects on the inflation-output tradeoff and monetary policy … flatten the Phillips curve, the tradeoff between inflation and activity. Second, the same globalization forces lead the …
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post too much through lobbying by corporate insiders. With financial globalization, national disclosure laws can have wide …
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It has recently become popular to argue that globalization has had or will soon have dramatic consequences for the … banks. In this paper, I consider three possible mechanisms through which it might be feared that globalization can undermine … globalization, even of a much more thorough sort than has yet occurred, is unlikely to weaken the ability of national central banks …
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The paper provides a unified analysis of globalization effects on the Phillips curve and monetary policy, in a New … inflation and activity. If policy makers are guided by the welfare criterion of the representative household, globalization …
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The note analyzes how globalization forces induce monetary authorities, guided in their policies by the welfare …
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In this paper we examine how monetary policy should respond to nominal exchange rates in a New Keynesian open economy model that allows for a non-trivial role for sterilised intervention. The paper develops the argument against the backdrop of the evolving policy-making environment of Asian...
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We examine firm participation in global supply chains to help explain a puzzling decline in protectionist demands in the U.S. despite increased import competition and ongoing currency undervaluation. To explain firm responses to undervaluation, we rely on advances in the international trade...
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