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Real Exchange Rate Volatility and the Price of Nontradables in Sudden-Stop-Prone Economies

Mendoza, Enrique G. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper shows that the dominant view that the high variability of real exchange rates is due to movements in exchange rate-adjusted prices of tradable goods does not hold for Mexican data for periods with a managed exchange rate. The relative price of nontradables accounts for up to 70...

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Keynes, Cocoa, and Copper; In Search of Commodity Currencies

Sahay, Ratna; Céspedes, Luis Felipe; Cashin, Paul - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002

This paper examines whether the real exchange rates of commodity-exporting countries and the real prices of their commodity exports move together over time. Using IMF data on the world prices of 44 commodities and national commodity export shares, we construct new monthly indices of national...

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Parity Reversion in Real Exchange Rates; Fast, Slow or Not At All?

McDermott, C. John; Cashin, Paul - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

Consensus estimates put the half-life of deviations from purchasing power parity (PPP) at about four years (Rogoff, 1996). However, conventional least squares estimates of half-lives are biased downward. Accordingly, as a preferred measure of the persistence of real exchange rate shocks, this...

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A Quantitative Examination of Current Account Dynamics in Equilibrium Models of Barter Economies

Mendoza, Enrique G. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

subject to random shocks affecting endowments, the terms of trade, and the real interest rate. Equilibrium stochastic … mimics the Harberger-Laursen-Metzler effect, but cannot account for a countercyclical trade balance, the variability of the … real exchange rate, and the income elasticity of imports. The results also show that the correlation between the trade …

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