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compare three data sets on sectoral productivity, including newly constructed data on total factor productivity. Overall, our … a robust negative relationship between productivity in the tradable sector and the real exchange rate, even after …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009565593
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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We investigate the link between real exchange rates and sectoral total factor productivity measures for countries in … previous studies that have found little relationship between productivity levels and the real exchange rate among high …
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productivity gains on both the Balassa-Samuelson effect and the behaviour of the tradable real exchange rate is especially assessed … predicted by theory. Comparing in-sample and out-of-sample estimates (in terms of the country coverage) of equilibrium exchange …
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Several alternative measures of effective exchange rates are discussed in the context of their theoretical underpinnings and actual construction. Focusing on contemporary indices and recently developed econometric methods, the empirical characteristics of these differing series are examined,...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390664
prices as a result of decreased trade costs. A decrease in trade costs enables lower-productivity firms to begin exporting … that low-productivity firms have more volatile markups …
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positive price-income association is attributable, at least partly, to the Balassa-Samuelson productivity differential effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009707555
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050476