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, the U.S. dollar is predominant in international trade and financial flows. The dollar acts as a "vehicle currency" in the … sense that agents in nondollar economies will generally engage in currency trade indirectly using the U.S. dollar rather …
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delivered a currency that retains its purchasing power at least as well as the dollar, there are at least three reasons why the … euro is unlikely to displace the dollar as the dominant international currency in the near term. First, the growth …
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This paper analyses the impact of the shift away from a U.S. dollar focus of systemically important emerging market … economies (EMEs) on configurations between the U.S. dollar, the euro and the yen. Given the difficulty that fixed or managed U ….S. dollar exchange rate regimes remain pervasive and reserve compositions mostly kept secret, the identification strategy of the …
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This paper estimates monthly pass-through ratios from import prices to consumer prices in real time. Conventional time series methods impose restrictions to generate exogenous shocks on exchange rates or import prices when estimating pass-through coefficients. Instead, a natural experiment based...
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This paper extends the Mussa and Rosen (1978) model of quality-pricing under perfect competition. Exporters sell goods of different qualities to consumers who have heterogeneous preferences for quality. Production is subject to decreasing returns to scale and, therefore, supply and the toughness...
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In this paper, we find that expected (news) and unexpected (contemporaneous) components of productivity changes have opposite effects on the U.S. real exchange rate. Following Barsky and Sims' (2010) identification method, we decompose US total factor productivity (TFP) into news and...
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Volatile and persistent real exchange rates are observed not only in aggregate series but also on the individual good level data. Kehoe and Midrigan (2007) recently showed that, under a standard assumption on nominal price stickiness, empirical frequencies of micro price adjustment cannot...
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Data for the U.S. and the Euro area during the post-Bretton Woods period shows that nominal and real exchange rates are more volatile than consumption, very persistent, and highly correlated with each other. Standard models with nominal rigidities match reasonably well the volatility and...
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