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We investigate the long-run relationship between the real exchange rate, traded and non-traded productivity levels, and …
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This study evaluates the individual roles of monetary and productivity shocks in real exchange rate fluctuations under … suggests that common-trend innovations are ascribed mostly to productivity shocks, whereas transitory innovations are governed … by monetary shocks. The allowance for productivity shocks, however, appears insufficient to fully explain the high …
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We reappraise the relationship between productivity and equilibrium real exchange rates using a panel estimation … role of non-traded, as well as traded, sector productivity shocks in exchange rate determination. We find evidence of … significant correlation between real exchange rates and productivity differentials in both sectors. But our finding of a …
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We propose a novel, multilaterally consistent productivity approach-based indicator to assess the international price … attention has been paid to an appropriate selection of price and productivity data in levels as opposed to indices, and to the …
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The evidence for a productivity-based explanation for real exchange rate behavior of East Asian currencies is examined …. Using sectoral output and employment data, relative prices and relative productivity levels are calculated for China … rates and relative productivity ratios, one finds a relationship for Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines. Only when augmenting …
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In this paper the evidence for a productivity-based explanation for real exchange rate behavior of East Asian … real exchange rates and relative productivity ratios, one finds a relationship for Japan, Malaysia, and the Philippines … panel regressions incorporating productivity variables, as well as other demand side factors, are less encouraging, except …
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We reappraise the relationship between productivity and equilibrium real exchange rates using a panel estimation … role of non-traded, as well as traded, sector productivity shocks in exchange rate determination. We find evidence of … significant correlation between real exchange rates and productivity differentials in both sectors. But our finding of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605092
Empirical studies outline developing countries’ experience economic growth through an undervalued exchange rate and that exchange rate overvaluations have negative long term effects on economic growth. This paper examined the impact of exchange rate movements as well as exchange rate...
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The paper analyzes the sources of exchange rate movements in emerging economies in the context of monetary tapering by the Federal Reserve. A structural vector autoregression framework with a long-run restriction is used to decompose the movements of nominal ex-change rates into two components:...
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I analyze the role of real and monetary shocks on the exchange rate behavior using a structural vector autoregressive model of the US vis-à-vis the rest of the world. The shocks are identified using sign restrictions on the responses of the variables to orthogonal disturbances. These...
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