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This paper re-assesses the problem of general equilibrium models in matching the behaviour of real exchange rate. We do so by developing a two country general equilibrium model with non-traded goods, home bias, incomplete markets and partial degrees of pass through as well as nominal rigidities...
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The consensus view is that capital controls can effectively lengthen the maturity composition of capital inflows and increase the independence of monetary policy but are not generally effective at reducing net inflows and influencing the real exchange rate. This paper presents empirical evidence...
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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. -- Exchange rates ; Productivity …
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a large and detailed macro data set. It finds that both the internal relationship between productivity and wages in the …
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As a standard explanation for national price levels, the Balassa-Samuelson (BS) model presupposes a homogeneous domestic labor force and intersectoral labor mobility. We propose a contrasting theory of the “rich neighborhood effect” (RNE). It is a more general theory because it explicitly...
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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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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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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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The paper explores the optimal monetary policy reaction to productivity shocks in an open economy. Whereas earlier …
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