This paper estimates and tests four models of the effects of exchange rate changes on export prices. It supports the Goldberg and Knetter (1997) canonical result that exporters adjust their prices by about half of any movement in exchange rates. A new twist is that exchange rate movements...

For about 25 years before the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation was very low and stable in most advanced economies. A little noticed dark side of this impressive achievement is that unemployment rates were almost always higher than needed to keep inflation low. This widespread and persistent policy...

A 2017 analysis found that fiscal balances and foreign exchange intervention are the most important observable factors behind differences in current account balances across countries and over time (Gagnon 2017). This paper updates that analysis with three more years (2016–18) and roughly 40...