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Sources of euro real exchange rate fluctuations : what is behind the euro weakness in 1999-2000?
Döpke, Jörg; Gottschalk, Jan; Kamps, Christophe - 2001
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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Exports and the exchange rate : a general equilibrium perspective
Alexander, Patrick; Reza, Abeer - 2022 - Last updated: April 4, 2022
Understanding and predicting the evolution of exports after a change in the nominal exchange rate is of central importance in international economics. Most of the literature focuses on estimating this relationship by reduced form, with the aim of uncovering a single structural parameter, but...
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Exchange rate risk, distribution asymmetry and deviations from purchasing power parity
Arghyrou, Michael Georgiou; Lu, Wenna; Pourpourides, … - 2020
Firstly, we show that domestic prices of net importer countries incorporate a risk premium, driven by higher moments of future nominal exchange rate returns and secondly, using US dollar exchange rates against three currencies of major net exporting countries to the US such as Canada, Japan and...
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Investigating the effect of exchange rate changes on the People's Republic of China's processed exports
Thorbecke, Willem - 2010
Many argue that the yuan needs to appreciate to rebalance the People's Republic of China's trade. However, empirical evidence on the effects of a CNY appreciation on the People's Republic of China's exports has been mixed for the largest category of exports, processed exports. Since much of the...
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A possible explanation of the 'exchange rate disconnect puzzle' : a common solution to three major macroeconomic puzzles?
Horioka, Charles; Ford, Nicholas - 2016
Meese and Rogoff (1983) and subsequent studies find that economic fundamentals are apparently not able to explain exchange rate movements, but we argue that this so-called "Exchange Rate Disconnect Puzzle" arose because researchers such as Meese and Rogoff (1983) did not use the right...
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The effect of real exchange rate volatility on income distribution in South Africa
Aye, Goodness C.; Harris, Laurence - 2019
This study investigates the effect of real exchange rate volatility on the distribution of income between labour and … exchange rate volatility is negative. Moreover, high exchange rate volatility impacts negatively on labour's income share …, while low exchange rate volatility impacts positively on labour income. As the magnitude of the effect of high exchange rate …
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The impacts of public expenditure innovations on real exchange rate volatility in South Africa
Nuru, Naser Yenus; Gereziher, Hayelom Yrgaw - 2021
This study investigates the impacts of public expenditure innovations on exchange rate volatility in South Africa using … that public expenditure innovation has a significant depreciating trend impact on exchange rate volatility, and its impact … volatility does not rely on the direction of the innovation, it varies according to the state of the economy. Public expenditure …
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China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan : a quantitative assessment of real and financial integration
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Chinn, Menzie David; Fujii, Eiji - 2003
The status of real and financial integration of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan is investigated using monthly data on one-month interbank rates, exchange rates, and prices. Specifically, the degree of integration is assessed based on the empirical validity of real interest parity, uncovered...
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Estimation of equilibrium real exchange rate and of deviations for Romania
Altar, Moisa; Albu, Lucian-Liviu; Dumitru, Ionut; … - 2009
Equilibrium real exchange rate provides useful information on the harmonisation of convergence criteria with exchange rate stability criteria; a requirement for accession to the European Monetary Union. This study applies econometric procedures for identifying the equilibrium real exchange rate...
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The euro exchange rate and Germany's trade surplus
Hohberger, Stefan; Ratto, Marco; Vogel, Lukas - 2019
We estimate a three-region (DE-REA-RoW) structural macroeconomic model, and we provide a counterfactual on how nominal exchange rate flexibility would have affected the German trade balance (TB) by simulating the shocks of the estimated model under a counterfactual flexible exchange rate regime....
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