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How strong do global commodity prices influence domestic food prices in developing countries? : a global price transmission and vulnerability mapping analysis

Kalkuhl, Matthias - 2014

This paper analyzes the transmission from global commodity to domestic food prices for a large set of countries. First, a theoretical model is developed to explain price transmission for different trade regimes. Drawing from the competitive storage model under rational expectations, it is shown...

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Monetary Policy, Trend Inflation, and the Great Moderation : An Alternative Interpretation

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Coibion, Olivier - 2009

With positive trend inflation, the Taylor principle is not enough to guarantee a determinate equilibrium. We provide new theoretical results on restoring determinacy in New Keynesian models with positive trend inflation and combine these with new empirical findings on the Federal Reserve’s...

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Real Exchange Rate Volatility, Financial Crises and Nominal Exchange Regimes

Morales-Zumaquero, Amalia - 2012

This paper examines the sources of real exchange rate (RER) volatility in eighty countries around the world, during the … the RER volatility. To that end, we employ two complementary procedures that consist in detecting structural breaks in the … RER series and decomposing volatility into its permanent and transitory components. The results confirm that exchange rate …

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Oil Prices and Exchange Rate Volatility in Arab Countries

Mundaca, Gabriela - 2012

I test the bipolar view hypothesis on the exchange rates of countries of the AMF which are countries with relative free capital mobility. I find that oil price shocks seem to be the source of less flexible exchange rates

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Do Foreign Exchange Markets Matter Dor Industry Stock Returns ? An empirical investigation

BODART, Vincent; REDING, Paul - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2001

that exchange rates have a significant effect on expected industry stock returns and on their volatility. The magnitude of …

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EMU and the Stability and Volatility of Foreign Exchange: Some Empirical Evidence

Bask, Mikael; de Luna, Xavier - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2001

How has the European monetary integration, with the creation of the EMU, affected the stability and volatility of … foreign exchange? In order to answer this question, stability and volatility measures are defined and calculated. We then use … these to investigate the changes in the stability and volatility of 16 European currencies, and in the volatility of the …

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