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Theory suggests a significant positive relationship in long-run equilibrium between net foreign assets (NFA) as a …
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-specific productivity shocks generate business cycles that are highly correlated internationally. The model assumes recursive intertemporal … trade response to country-specific shocks. Hence, a productivity (and GDP) increase in a given country triggers a strong …
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The international welfare effects of a country's monetary policy shocks have been controversial in the literature. While a unilateral monetary expansion increases the production efficiency in each country, it affects terms of trade in favor of one country against another depending on the...
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-specific productivity shocks generate business cycles that are highly correlated internationally. The model assumes recursive intertemporal … trade response to country-specific shocks. Hence, a productivity (and GDP) increase in a given country triggers a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121891
Since Friedman (1953), an advantage often attributed to flexible exchange rate regimes over fixed regimes is their ability to insulate more effectively the economy against real shocks. I use a post-Bretton Woods sample (1973-96) of seventy-five developing countries to assess whether the...
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We develop a general equilibrium model of an emerging market economy where productivity growth differentials between …
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In this paper, we investigate the impact of vertical product differentiation on exchange rate pass-through (ERPT). We define product vertical differentiation as a spectrum of products that range from high end to low end. Using a comprehensive dataset that includes highly disaggregated products...
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-192) to an economy with traded and nontraded goods, and it analyzes the impact of country-specific and global productivity … investment to country-specific traded productivity growth. Second, global traded productivity and country-specific nontraded … productivity growth have no effect on the current account, but they have a significant impact on investment. Third, the global …
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It is often suggested that currency unions unduly inhibit the efficient adjustment of real exchange rates. Recently, this has been seen as a key failure of the Eurozone. This paper presents evidence that throws doubt on this conclusion. Our evidence suggests that real exchange rate movement...
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, incorporating sectoral productivity shocks and a labor market wedge. We construct a DSGE model to generate a cross section and time … eurozone data. Our findings contrast with previous studies that have found little relationship between productivity and real …
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