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A central assumption of open economy macro models with nominal rigidities relates to the currency in which goods are … priced, whether there is so-called producer currency pricing or local currency pricing. This has important implications for … exchange rate pass-through and optimal exchange rate policy. We show, using novel transaction level information on currency and …
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The stickiness and currency of pricing of traded goods play a central role in international macroeconomics, however …-the-dock for the period 1994-2005, and present four main results: First, the median price duration in the currency of pricing is 10 … to standard modeling assumptions, for the U.S, there is producer currency pricing in exports and local currency pricing …
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This paper studies how portfolios with a global investment scope are actually allocated internationally using a unique micro dataset on U.S. equity mutual funds. While mutual funds have great flexibility to invest globally, they invest in a surprisingly limited number of stocks, around 100. The...
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This paper develops a simple two-country, two-good model, in which the real exchange rate, stock and bond prices are jointly determined. The model predicts that stock market prices are correlated internationally even though their dividend processes are independent, providing a theoretical...
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Movements in the stock market can have a significant impact on the macroeconomy and are therefore likely to be an important factor in the determination of monetary policy. However, little is known about the magnitude of the Federal Reserve's reaction to the stock market. One reason is that it is...
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This paper measures the effects of the risk of war on nine U.S. financial variables using a heteroskedasticity-based estimation technique. The results indicate that increases in the risk of war cause declines in Treasury yields and equity prices, a widening of lower-grade corporate spreads, a...
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