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by the elimination of the exchange rate as a source of shocks, in combination with faster adjustment in national price … relative price adjustment …
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Although large changes in real exchange rates have occurred during the past decades, the real implications of these movements remain an empirical question. Using detailed data from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Japan we examine the implications of exchange rates for time...
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This paper uncovers a striking empirical regularity: the consumer price of a good relative to a different good within a … country tends to be much less variable than the price of that good relative to a similar good in another country. This fact …
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Consumers living near the U.S.-Canada border can shift their expenditures between the two countries, so real exchange rate fluctuations can act as demand shocks to border areas' retail trade industries. Using annual county-level data, we estimate the effects of real exchange rates on the number...
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rate. Multiple margins of adjustment (frequency of price changes, direction of price changes, size of price changes, exit … our dataset to show that degree of competition, stickiness of prices, synchronization of price changes, reputation of … sellers, and returns to search effort are important determinants of pass-through and speed of price adjustment for …
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Changes in the price of nontradable goods relative to tradable goods account for roughly 50 percent of the cyclical …
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exchange rate and by the cross-country heterogeneity in the distribution of within-country price differentials. We develop a … simple framework to separate the border effect from these confounding factors. Using price data from Engel and Rogers (1996 …
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demonstrate that the law of one price holds very well within currency unions for tens of thousands of goods sold by each of the … the law of one price outside of currency unions, even when the nominal exchange rate is pegged. This clarifies that the … common currency per se, and not simply the lack of nominal volatility, is important in reducing cross-country price …
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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 …
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coffee price changes, with more observers emphasizing the consequences of coffee price changes on money creation and … inflation. The results obtained indicate that coffee price changes have indeed been closely related to money creation and … inflation. Also, coffee price changes have been negatively related to the rate of devaluation of the crawling peg. These results …
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