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a sticky-price alternative to Lucas's (1982) exchage rate risk premium model. We show that the level risk premium' in …
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We propose that analysis of purchasing power parity (PPP) and the law of one price (LOOP) should explicitly take into account the possibility of commodity points' thresholds delineating a region of no central tendency among relative prices, possibly due to lack of perfect arbitrage in the...
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Once one recognizes that governments borrow international reserves and exercise other policy options to defend fixed exchange rates during currency crises, the question arises: What factors determine a government's decision to abandon a currency peg or hang on? In a setting of purposeful action...
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This paper develops a dynamic continuous-time model in which international risk sharing can yield substantial welfare … an attendant world portfolio shift from safe, but low-yield, capital into riskier, high-yield capital. The presence of … of specialized, hence inherently risky, production inputs. A partial calibration exercise based on Penn World Table …
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time, the definition of external balance has evolved in response to changes in the world economy's structure. The foreign … external balance become more difficult to apply when countries face credit rationing as a result of nonrepayment risk …
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This paper develops a dynamic framework in which macroeconomic liberalization and stabilization measures of the type recently seen in Latin America can be studied. The model is sufficiently general to cover both polar cases of a closed capital account and free private capital mobility, so the...
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This paper surveys the decline in real interest rates in advanced and emerging economies over the past several decades, linking that process to a range of global factors that have operated with different force in different periods. The paper argues that estimates of long-run equilibrium real...
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