Devereux, Michael B.; Smith, Gregor W.; Yetman, James - 2009
relative consumption growth and real exchange-rate depreciations across countries. The striking lack of evidence for this link … — the consumption/real exchange-rate anomaly or Backus-Smith puzzle — has prompted research on risk-sharing indicators with …. Independent evidence on the weak link between forecasts for consumption and real interest rates suggests that the presence of …