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We document the consequences of real exchange rate movements for the employment, hours, and hourly earnings of workers in manufacturing industries across individual states. Exchange rates have statistically significant wage and employment implications in these local labor markets. The importance...
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rates. The temporal pattern of the depreciation in U.S. nominal exchange rates following a positive monetary policy shock is …
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This paper investigates empirically and attempts to identify the sources of real exchange rate fluctuations since the collapse of Bretton Woods. The paper's first two sections survey and extend earlier, non-structural empirical work on this subject by Campbell and Clarida (1987), Meese and...
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This paper develops a structural VAR model to measure how a shock to one country can affect the GDP of other countries …. It uses trade linkages to estimate the multiplier effects of a shock as it is transmitted through other countries' output …-trade matrix. For example, due to these output-multiplier effects, a shock to one country can have a large impact on countries that …
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How strong are strategic complementarities in price setting across firms? In this paper, we provide a direct empirical estimate of firm price responses to changes in prices of their competitors. We develop a general framework and an empirical identification strategy to estimate the elasticities...
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government spending shock. In addition, the deep-habit model predicts that in response to an anticipated increase in government …
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This paper proposes a new approach to identifying the effects of monetary policy shocks in an international vector autoregression. Using high-frequency data on the prices of Fed Funds futures contracts, we measure the impact of the surprise component of the FOMC-day Federal Reserve policy...
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permit estimation using standard Bayesian techniques. Applying our framework to an estimated New-Keynesian business cycle …
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Most empirical analyses of monetary policy have been confined to frameworks in which the Federal Reserve is implicitly assumed to exploit only a limited amount of information, despite the fact that the Fed actively monitors literally thousands of economic time series. This article explores the...
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estimate the size of the COVID-19-related unemployment shock to be between 2 and 5 times larger than the typical unemployment … shock, depending on race and gender, resulting in a significant increase in mortality rates and drop in life expectancy. We … also predict that the shock will disproportionately affect African-Americans and women, over a short horizon, while the …
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