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Real Exchange Rate Movements and the Relative Price of Non-Traded Goods

Betts, Caroline - 2009

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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Accounting for U.S. Real Exchange Rate Changes

Engel, Charles M. - 2021

This study measures the proportion of U.S. real exchange rate movements that can be accounted for by movements in the relative prices of non-traded goods. The decomposition is done at all possible horizons that the data allow -- from one month up to thirty years. The accounting is performed with...

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Traded and Nontraded Goods Prices, and International Risk Sharing : An Empirical Investigation

Corsetti, Giancarlo - 2011

Accounting for the pervasive evidence of limited international risk sharing is an important hurdle for open-economy models, especially when these are adopted in the analysis of policy trade-offs likely to be affected by imperfections in financial markets. Key to the literature is the evidence,...

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Revisiting the Commodity Curse : A Financial Perspective

Alberola, Enrique - 2017

We study the response of a three-sector commodity-exporter small open economy to a commodity price boom. When the economy has access to international borrowing and lending, a temporary commodity price boom brings about the standard wealth effect that stimulates demand and has long-run...

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Heterogeneous Frictional Costs Across Industries in Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2016

While there has been significant research to explore the determinants (and frictions) of foreign direct investment (FDI), past literature primarily focuses on country-wide FDI patterns with little examination of sectoral heterogeneity in FDI. Anecdotally, there is substantial sectoral...

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An Alternative Interpretation of the 'Resource Curse' : Theory and Policy Implications

Hausmann, Ricardo; Rigobon, Roberto - 2021

between two building blocks: specialization in non-tradables and financial market imperfections. We show that if a country has … generates significant volatility in the demand for non-tradables. However, when the non-resource tradable sector disappears, the … economy becomes much more volatile, because shocks to the demand for non-tradables - possibly associated with shocks to …

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Boom-Bust Cycles in Middle Income Countries : Facts and Explanation

Tornell, Aaron; Westermann, Frank - 2021

nontradables (N) sector grows faster than the tradables (T) sector. Meanwhile, the opposite is true in the aftermath of crisis. We …

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Trade and Workforce Changeover in Brazil

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2013

Linked employer-employee data for Brazil over a period of large-scale trade liberalization document two salient workforce changeovers. Within the traded-goods sector, there is a marked occupation downgrading and a simultaneous education upgrading by which employers fill expanding low-skill...

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Microeconomic Sources of Real Exchange Rate Variability

Crucini, Mario J. - 2012

We provide three sets of variance decompositions on microeconomic international relative price data. The first shows that the overall distribution of absolute deviations from the Law of One Price (LOP) is dominated by cross-sectional variation in long-term averages, not by time-series variation...

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The Real Exchange Rate, Mercantilism and the Learning by Doing Externality

Aizenman, Joshua - 2008

This paper examines the degree to which the learning by doing externality [LBD] calls for an undervalued exchange rate, a policy suggested by recent empirical studies which concluded that mildly undervalued real exchange rate may enhance growth. We obtain mixed results. For an economy where LBD...

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