This study measures the proportion of U.S. exchange rate movements that can be accounted for by movements in relative prices of non-traded goods.

Economists have long been interested in searching for the causes and effects of the growth of income and wealth of countries. The relevant literature gradually was divided nto two banches: economic growth and development economics, with the former emphasizing the use of rigorous mathematical...

The class of growth models that incorporate nonrivalry and/or externalities implies that the size (scale) of an economy influences its growth rate. Ample empirical evidence exists to suggest that such implied scale effects are counter-factual. The objective of this paper is to develop a general...