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We study the quarterly bilateral real exchange rate and the relative price of non-traded to traded goods for 1225 country pairs over 1980-2005. We show that the two variables are positively correlated, but that movements in the relative price measure are smaller than those in the real exchange...
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exchange rate so as to facilitate terms of trade adjustment. We show that optimal nominal exchange rate volatility will reflect … bias in production. Quantitatively, we find the optimal exchange rate volatility should be significantly less than would be … optimal exchange rate volatility may be non-monotonic …
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This paper explores the hypothesis that high volatility of real and nominal exchange rates may be due to the fact that … necessary to construct such an explanation for exchange rate volatility. In addition to the presence of local currency pricing … parity. Together, it is shown that these elements can produce exchange rate volatility that is much higher than shocks to …
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This paper investigates empirically and attempts to identify the sources of real exchange rate fluctuations since the collapse of Bretton Woods. The paper's first two sections survey and extend earlier, non-structural empirical work on this subject by Campbell and Clarida (1987), Meese and...
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We develop an empirical model of exchange rate returns, applied separately to samples of developed (DM) and developing (EM) economies' currencies against the dollar. Monetary policy stance of the global central banks, measured via a natural-language-based approach, has a large effect on exchange...
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How do Bitcoin prices evolve? What are the consequences for monetary policy? We answer these questions in a novel, yet simple endowment economy. There are two types of money, both useful for transactions: Bitcoins and Dollars. A central bank keeps the real value of Dollars constant, while...
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appreciates in the medium run, while an increase in the volatility of productivity leads to a dollar depreciation. We propose a … general-equilibrium theory of exchange rate determination based on the interaction between monetary policy and time … volatility shocks is consistent with the empirical evidence. Furthermore we show that risk factors and interest-rate smoothing …
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Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) have reinvigorated an old literature on the link between home bias in the goods market and home bias in the asset market by arguing that trade costs in the goods market can account for the observed portfolio home bias. The key link between home bias in the two markets...
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Managed portfolios that take less risk when volatility is high produce large alphas, substantially increase factor …, profitability, return on equity, and investment factors in equities, as well as the currency carry trade. Volatility timing …
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theory predicts that the real exchange rate volatility curve is a U-shaped function of the degree of price stickiness. Using …We introduce the real exchange rate volatility curve as a useful device to understand the role of price stickiness in … sector-level European real exchange rate data and frequency of price changes, we estimate the volatility curve. The results …
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