Carvalho, Carlos; Nechio, Fernanda - In: American Economic Review 101 (2011) 6, pp. 2391-2424
We study the purchasing power parity (PPP) puzzle in a multisector, two-country, sticky-price model. Sectors differ in the extent of price stickiness, leading to heterogeneous sectoral real exchange rate dynamics. Deviations from PPP are more volatile and persistent than in an otherwise...