Firstly, we show that domestic prices of net importer countries incorporate a risk premium, driven by higher moments of future nominal exchange rate returns and secondly, using US dollar exchange rates against three currencies of major net exporting countries to the US such as Canada, Japan and...

The paper analyzes the consumption-real exchange rate anomaly in a multi-country model with complete markets under various preference specifications: (i) standard time-additive preferences; (ii) recursive preferences of Epstein and Zin; and (iii) habit formation preferences of Campbell and...

This paper studies the role of the transport costs in accounting for the puzzling behaviors of relative prices and risk sharing across countries. We show that introducing the transport costs in an otherwise standard competitive model improves its ability to rationalize the deviations from the...

Recent contributions have shown that it is possible to account for the so-called consumptionreal exchange anomaly in models with goods market frictions where international asset trade is limited to a riskless bond. In this paper, we consider a more realistic international asset market structure...