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This Mundell Fleming lecture at the International Monetary Fund’s 2001 annual research conference marks the 25th anniversary of Rudiger Dornbusch’s masterpiece, “Expectations and Exchange Rate Dynamics,” a seminal contribution to both policy and research in the field of international...
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We analyze the contribution of speculation to exchange rate volatility using different assumptions regarding … speculation strategies and monetary policy rules. We take the DORNBUSCH (1976) model as the starting point and adopt a slight … modification of the money demand specification. With a money supply rule, rational speculation dampens the overshooting of the …
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L’évaluation du prix des actifs est un problème récurrent en économie. Cette question se pose dans le domaine de l’immobilier comme dans d’autres domaines. Après une très forte phase de croissance, le marché immobilier américain a été touché à partir du mois de juin 2007 par...
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We assess the competitiveness of Mauritius in recent years using two approaches. First, we estimate the difference between the equilibrium and the actual real exchange rate using four methods: the macroeconomic balance approach, the single-equation fundamentals approach, the capital-enhanced...
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The paper describes six different methodologies that have been used to assess the equilibrium values of exchange rates and discusses their limitations. It applies several of the approaches to data for the United States as of 2006, illustrates that different approaches sometimes provide...
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This Selected Issues paper reviews indicators for external competitiveness in Hungary. The paper examines recent developments in a range of indicators. These include regional comparisons of wage and unit labor cost developments, and standard indicators based on price and cost-based measures of...
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The IMF's internal analysis of exchange rate issues has been guided by, and limited by, the conceptual and empirical frameworks that have emerged from the collective research of the economics profession. The research has provided several general approaches that are useful for assessing whether...
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This paper analyzes competitiveness in the Baltics in the run-up to European Union accession. Several factors appear to have driven movements in equilibrium real exchange rates in the Baltics since the start of the transition process. In the earlier years of transition, price liberalization,...
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nonlinearities, consistent with theories based on transaction costs or limits to speculation. This evidence suggests that the forward …
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