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This paper reconciles the persistence of aggregate real exchange rates with the faster adjustment of international … stylized facts regarding this puzzle. First, adjustment to purchasing power parity deviations in aggregated data is not just a … slower version of adjustment to the law of one price in microeconomic data, as arbitrage occurs in different markets, in …
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The data show large and persistent deviations of real exchange rates from purchasing power parity. Recent work has shown that to a large extent these movements are driven by deviations from the law of one price for traded goods. In the data, real and nominal exchange rates are about 6 times as...
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We survey the recent empirical and theoretical developments in the literature on the relation between prices and exchange rates. After updating some of the major findings in the empirical literature we present a simple framework to interpret this evidence. We review theoretical models that...
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, empirical frequencies of micro price adjustment cannot replicate the time-series properties of the law-of-one-price deviations …. We extend their sticky price model by combining good specific price adjustment with information stickiness in the sense … cities within a country. Using a panel of U.S.-Canadian city pairs, we estimate a dynamic price adjustment process for each …
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' currencies, nominal exchange rate flexibility cannot achieve any relative price adjustment. In that case nominal exchange rate …
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This paper examines optimal exchange-rate policy in two-country sticky-price general equilibrium models in which households and firms optimize over an infinite horizon in an environment of uncertainty. The models are in the vein of the new open-economy macroeconomics' as exemplified by Obstfeld...
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method to identify commodity points. Price adjustment is treated as a nonlinear process, and a threshold autoregression (TAR …) offers a parsimonious specification within which both thresholds and adjustment speeds are estimated by maximum likelihood … methods. Our model performs well using post-1980 data reasonable: adjustment outside the thresholds might imply half-lives of …
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by policy responses. This paper presents a theory-based measure of capital flow pressures, a new Exchange Market Pressure …
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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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time, which we use in a difference-in-differences strategy. Firms' frequency of price adjustment did not change around the …
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