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We develop a simple model that highlights the costs and benefits of fixed exchange rates as they relate to trade, and show that negative export-price shocks reduce fiscal revenue and increase the likelihood of an expected currency devaluation. Using a new high-frequency data set on...
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I examine the effect of exogenous terms of trade shocks on an exchange rate by turning to New Zealand's dairy auctions. Dairy is New Zealand's largest export category, making up almost 20 percent of exports. Specifically, whole milk powder accounts for 6 to 11 percent of total exports, and its...
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, we extend the concept of supply shocks beyond the productivity shock towards labor supply shocks. Our analysis …
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The evidence for a productivity-based explanation for real exchange rate behavior of East Asian currencies is examined …. Using sectoral output and employment data, relative prices and relative productivity levels are calculated for China … rates and relative productivity ratios, one finds a relationship for Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines. Only when augmenting …
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In this paper the evidence for a productivity-based explanation for real exchange rate behavior of East Asian … real exchange rates and relative productivity ratios, one finds a relationship for Japan, Malaysia, and the Philippines … panel regressions incorporating productivity variables, as well as other demand side factors, are less encouraging, except …
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This study evaluates the individual roles of monetary and productivity shocks in real exchange rate fluctuations under … suggests that common-trend innovations are ascribed mostly to productivity shocks, whereas transitory innovations are governed … by monetary shocks. The allowance for productivity shocks, however, appears insufficient to fully explain the high …
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This paper analyzes the factors underlying the weakness of the euro. For this purpose, the framework advocated by Clarida and Gali (1994) is used. Within this model, three structural shocks drive the dynamics of the endogenous variables: aggregate supply shocks, aggregate spending shocks, and...
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This paper uses a 'new open economy macroeconomics' model to study the effect of a productivity shock on exchange rate … demonstrate that these features imply that, in an otherwise standard ?new open economy macroeconomics' model, a productivity shock …
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Results of empirical research have revealed a characteristic hump-shaped effect of monetary policy shocks on output: the effect builds to a peak after several months and then gradually dies out. We analyze, in the context of a "new open economy macroeconomics" model, factors that imply a hump-...
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This paper uses a dynamic general equilibrium optimizing two-country model to analyze how the formation of exchange rate expectations shapes the effects of monetary policy shocks in open economies. The model implies that the short-run output effects of permanent monetary policy shocks diminish...
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