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this risk is hedged through nominal assets rather than through equities …
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reasonably the price of risk, and, in some cases, the MVE model is valuable in explaining expected equity returns. Unlike with …
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the structure of international financial markets: one where there are complete markets for hedging consumption risk … internationally, and the other without risk-sharing possibilities. Our results are quite sharp: exporters will generally wish to set …
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The purchasing power parity puzzle relates to the adjustment of real exchange rates. Real exchange rates are extremely volatile, suggesting that temporary shocks emanate from the monetary sector. But the half-life of real exchange rate deviations is extremely large -- 2.5 to 5 years. This...
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floating exchange rates yield higher welfare depend on the exact nature of price stickiness and on the degree of risk … failures of the law of one price are important. The evidence on price setting and risk-sharing opportunities is not refined …
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membership is not associated with significantly greater risk sharing, though risk sharing is widespread within countries …
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This paper develops a welfare-based model of monetary policy in an open economy. We focus on the extent to which monetary policy should be employed in maintaining the exchange rate. The traditional approach maintains that exchange rate flexibility is desirable in the presence of real...
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This paper explores the implications of the European single currency within a simple sticky price intertemporal model. The main issue we focus on is how the euro may alter the responsiveness of consumer prices to exchange rate changes. Our central conjectures is that the acceptance of the euro...
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This paper investigates the behavior of the foreign exchange risk premium in two recent two-country intertemporal … risk premium in any general equilibrium model arises from the correlation of the exchange rate with consumption. In … arises endogenously because monetary shocks cause output and consumption to change. The size of the risk premium depends on …
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risk averse. On the other hand, floating exchange rates are always preferred when prices are set in consumers' currencies …
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