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In emerging-market economies, real exchange rate adjustment is critical for maintaining a sustainable current account position and thereby for helping to reduce macroeconomic and financial instability. The authors examine empirically two related hypotheses: (i) that real exchange rate...
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Voluminous theoretical and empirical research shows that real exchange rate (RER) undervaluation could be conducive to economic development. Why do countries then often avoid the pursuit of policies that facilitate undervaluation or even intentionally pursue RER overvaluation? We address this...
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The aim of this paper is to provide some new empirical evidence on the determinants of volatility of real exchange … and monetary) can account for volatility of real exchange rates in emerging economies, with international financial … emerging countries. -- emerging economies ; real exchange rate ; volatility ; financial integration ; GMM method ; dynamic …
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This paper focuses on the analysis of the long-run response of the Real Exchange Rate (RER) to political risks and tests whether non-economic variables have an impact on RER in 31 emerging and developing countries. We use annual data from the International Country Risk Guide database over the...
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In this paper, we revisit the relationship between economic growth and exchange rate misalignments, especially undervaluations. In particular, we ask which countries benefit from undervaluations at most, and whether the impact of undervaluations on growth depends on institutional quality as...
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volatility across emerging markets today is still significantly larger than a decade ago. …
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volatility and persistence of primary commodity prices, and the model is shown to deliver equilibrium real exchange rates that … volatility of real exchange rates in the data. The analysis implies that existing models used to analyze real exchange rates …
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We show that explicitly modeling primary commodities in an otherwise totally standard incomplete markets open economy model can go a long way in explaining the Mussa puzzle and the Backus-Smith puzzle, two of the main puzzles in the international economics literature.
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We revisit medium- to long-run exchange rate determination, focusing on the role of international investment positions. To do so, we make use of a new econometric framework accounting for conditional long-run homogeneity in heterogeneous dynamic panel data models. In particular, in our model the...
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