Intro -- Trade Costs and Real Exchange Rate Volatility: The Role of Ricardian Comparative Advantage -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. MULTI-COUNTRY MODEL -- III. EXAMPLE -- IV. EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE -- V. CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX MULTI-COUNTRY REAL EXCHANGE RATE VOLATILITY -- REFERENCES.

This paper examines the impact of trade costs on real exchange rate volatility. We incorporate a multi-country Ricardian model of trade, based on the work of Eaton and Kortum (2002), into a macroeconomic model to show how bilateral real exchange rate volatility depends on relative technological...

This paper examines the impact of trade costs on real exchange rate volatility. The channel is examined by constructing a two-country Ricardian model of trade, based on the work of Dornbusch, Fischer, and Samuelson (1977), which shows that higher trade costs result in a larger nontradable...