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example, can make the effect of a traded-goods productivity improvement on the real exchange rate negative or positive, as … on the relationship between productivity and the real exchange rate. …
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1970 to 2008 and compare three different datasets on sectoral productivity, including a newly constructed database on total … factor productivity. Overall, our DOLS estimation results do not support the BS hypothesis. For the last two decades, we find … a very robust negative relationship between the productivity in the tradable sector and the equilibrium real exchange …
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Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …
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Since Friedman (1953), an advantage often attributed to flexible exchange rate regimes over fixed regimes is their ability to insulate more effectively the economy against real shocks. I use a post-Bretton Woods sample (1973-96) of seventy-five developing countries to assess whether the...
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interdependencies between the terms of trade and economic growth are offered: the home market effect and the productivity shock effect …
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We reappraise the relationship between productivity and equilibrium real exchange rates using a panel estimation … role of non-traded, as well as traded, sector productivity shocks in exchange rate determination. We find evidence of … significant correlation between real exchange rates and productivity differentials in both sectors. But our finding of a …
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persistence typically proceed along two distinct paths, resorting either to the presence of real shocks such as productivity …
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This paper analyzes the welfare implications of international spillovers related to productivity gains, changes in …-equilibrium model with monopolistic competition, drawing a distinction between productivity gains from manufacturing efficiency and …
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We present a simple behavioral model with chartists and fundamentalists and analyze their trading behavior in a floating regime and in a target zone regime. Regarding the floating regime the model replicates the well-known stylized facts like excessive volatility, fat tails, volatility...
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The link between exchange rates and interest rates features prominently in the theoretical and empirical literature on small open economies. This paper revisits this relationship using a simple model that incorporates the role of exchange rate pass-through into domestic prices and distinguishes...
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