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Border prices of traded goods are highly sensitive to exchange rates; however, the consumer price index (CPI) and the … retail prices of goods that make up the CPI are more stable. This paper decomposes the sources of this price stability for … distribution margins and imported inputs in transmitting exchange rate fluctuations into consumption prices. We provide rich cross …
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exchange rate movements and import prices. Recent debates hinge on whether producer-currency-pricing (PCP) or local currency … into import prices. However, for OECD countries, the most important determinants of changes in pass-through over time are …
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three reasons for the change in pass-through into the retail prices of goods. First, pass-through may have declined at the … level of import prices, but the evidence is mixed over types of goods and countries. Second, there has been a large … heightened sensitivity to import prices and exchange rates. Finally, we consider whether there have been changing sectoral …
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Although the effects of economic news announcements on asset prices are well established, these relationships are … that have the largest effects on asset prices. The time variation in effects is explained by economic conditions, including …
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International financial linkages, particularly through global bank flows, generate important questions about the consequences for economic and financial stability, including the ability of countries to conduct autonomous monetary policy. I address the monetary autonomy issue in the context of...
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U.S. manufacturing industries are becoming increasingly sensitive to changes in the international value of the dollar. A look at recent studies of exchange rate effects on industry performance suggests that the 1997-98 rise in the dollar may significantly reduce U.S. producers' profits and...
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Using two decades of annual data, we explore the links between real exchange rates and employment, wages and overtime activity in specific U.S. manufacturing industries. Across two-digit industry levels of aggregation, exchange rate movements do not have large effects on numbers of jobs or on...
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This paper presents an empirical analysis of transmission rates from exchange rate movements to import prices, across … exchange rate changes to import prices in the short run is high, although incomplete, and that it differs across industries and … declined, structural breaks in exchange rate pass-through into import prices are evident only in a limited sample of …
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The trade-weighted exchange rates constructed for the aggregate U.S. economy do not always capture the changes in industry competitive conditions induced by movements in specific bilateral exchange rates. Exchange rates produced using information on industry-specific trade partners are often...
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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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