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Antidumping Investigations and the Pass-Through of Exchange Rates and Antidumping Duties
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999
We present a model that shows that exchange rate pass-through is likely to be substantially altered when firms face antidumping (AD) duties and that optimal pass-through of AD duties may be up to 200 percent. We examine both pass-through issues using monthly prices across 345 U.S.- imported...
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Some Aspects of the Canadian Experience with Flexible Exchange Rates in the 1970s
Freedman, Charles - 1980
In this study, the authors examine three aspects of the Canadian experience with flexible exchange rates in the 1970s: the movements in the Canadian dollar-U.S. dollar exchange rate, the sharp growth of external borrowings by Canadians in the 1974-76 period, and the real effects of relative...
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The Canadian Dollar, 1971-76 : An Exploratory Investigation of Short Run Movements
Freedman, Charles - 1979
proved significant are the Canadian terms of trade, measures of long-term borrowing, the relative cyclical position of Canada …
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Trade Flows and Exchange Rates : Importers, Exporters and Products
Devereux, Michael B. - 2019
Using highly-disaggregated transaction-level trade data, we document the importance of new firm-level trade partner relationships and the addition of new products to existing relationships in driving long-run import flows. Moreover, we find that these margins are sensitive to movements in the...
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Virtual Borders : Online Nominal Rigidities and International Market Segmentation
Boivin, Jean - 2010
Do prices respond to macro shocks? Does the mere presence of international frontiers hinder trade? We revisit these questions by studying a dataset of online book prices for a number of US and Canadian retailers. We believe our dataset is well suited to this task for a number of reasons: (1)...
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Policy Responses to Exchange-Rate Movements
Ball, Laurence M. - 2009
policies of an actual central bank, the Bank of Canada. Finally, the paper considers the role of fiscal policy in an open …
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Canada's Pioneering Experience with a Flexible Exchange Rate in the 1950s : (Hard) Lessons Learned for Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy
Bordo, Michael D. - 2007
This paper revisits Canada's pioneering experience with floating exchange rate over the period 1950-1962. It examines … whether the floating rate was the best option for Canada in the 1950s by developing and estimating a New Keynesian small open … that monetary policy was more volatile in the post-1957 period and Canada's macroeconomic performance suffered as a result …
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Monetary Policy with Flexible Exchange Rates and Forward Interest Rates as Indicators
Svensson, Lars E.O. - 1994
In the new situation with flexible exchange rates, monetary policy in Europe will have to rely more on indicators than previously under fixed rates. One of the potential indicators, the forward interest rate curve, can be used to indicate market expectations of the time-paths of future short...
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Characterizing Predictable Components in Excess Returns on Equity and Foreign Exchange Markets
Bekaert, Geert - 1991
The paper characterizes predictable components in excess rates of returns on major equity and foreign exchange markets using lagged excess returns, dividend yields, and forward premiums as instruments. Vector autoregressive techniques demonstrate one-step-ahead predictability and provide implied...
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Can Oil Prices Forecast Exchange Rates?
Ferraro, Domenico - 2012
This paper investigates whether oil prices have a reliable and stable out-of-sample relationship with the Canadian/U.S dollar nominal exchange rate. Despite state-of-the-art methodologies, we find little systematic relation between oil prices and the exchange rate at the monthly and quarterly...
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