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This paper reconciles the persistence of aggregate real exchange rates with the faster adjustment of international relative prices in microeconomic data. Panel estimation of an error correction model using a micro data set uncovers new stylized facts regarding this puzzle. First, adjustment to...
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We examine the neoclassical investment model using a panel of U.S. manufacturing firms. The standard model with no … for firms with low (pre-sample) payouts (firms we expect to face financing constraints). Hem, investment is sensitive to … both firm cash flow and macroeconomic credit conditions, holding constant investment opportunities. Sample splits based on …
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In the past fifteen years key exchange rates have moved in larger and more persistent ways than advocates of flexible rates in the late 1960s would have left anyone free to imagine. Certainly there was no expectation of constancy for nominal exchange rates. But real exchange rate movements of 30...
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This paper applies the analytical framework of the monetary approach to exchange rate determination to the analysis of the Dollar/Pound exchange rate during the first part of the 1920's. The analysis uses monthly data up to the return of Britain to gold in 1925. The equilibrium exchange rate is...
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since the 1950s. Growth accelerations tend to be correlated with increases in investment and trade, and with real exchange …
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a dynamic multicountry model of international trade, production, and investment to data from 19 countries to assess this … a counterfactual world without trade frictions in manufactures. Removing these trade frictions goes a long way toward … resolving a number of the puzzles: The dependence of domestic investment on domestic saving falls by half or disappears entirely …
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We investigate the relationships among trade, foreign direct investment and the real exchange rate between a set of … Southeast Asian and Latin American countries and both the United States and Japan. Foreign direct investment by both Japan and … direct investment. These sets of relationships, between the real exchange rate and foreign direct investment, and between …
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two effects interact, as we demonstrate. We use a three-region world model as a framework for alternative steady …
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This paper is concerned with the fact that the incidence of speculative attacks tends to be temporally correlated; that is, currency crises appear to pass contagiously from one country to another. The paper provides a survey of the theoretical literature, and analyzes the contagious nature of...
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This paper presents a survey of two basic puzzles in international finance. The first puzzle is the `predictable excess return puzzle.' The returns on foreign currency deposits relative to domestic currency deposits should be equalized based upon uncovered interest parity. However, not only do...
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