differential there is a three percentage point change in the real dollar/euro valuation. These findings are robust to the …

For more than a decade the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's trade-weighted dollar index has served as a summary … statistic for foreign exchange movements of the dollar. Recent revisions acknowledging significant changes in the worldwide … American Free Trade Agreement and the liberalization of financial flows have reduced many barriers to trade. Consequently, the …

value of the U.S. dollar. The staff made the changeover, from indexes that had been used since the late 1970s, for two … reasons. First, five of the ten currencies in the staff's previous main index of the dollar's exchange value were about to be … broadening of the scope of the staff's dollar indexes and a closer alignment of the currency weights with U.S. trade patterns …