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Dollar Exchange Rate volatility and Productivity Growth in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Eklou, Kodjovi - 2023

This paper examines the impact of Dollar exchange rate volatility on firm productivity in Emerging Markets economies … volatility reduces firm productivity growth. Exploring channels, its finds that the results are driven by countries with low … impact on firm productivty. Further, exploiting firm level data, the paper shows that dollar exchange rate volatility …

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Real Exchange Rates in Growing Economies; How Strong is the Role of the Nontradables Sector?

Miyajima, Ken - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

This paper emphasizes the importance of total factor productivity (TFP) developments in the nontradables sector to quantitatively demonstrate that the time-honored Balassa-Samuelson hypothesis does not generally apply to episodes of economic growth. Though the Balassa- Samuelson hypothesis...

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Measuring Quarterly Economic Growth from Outer Space

Beyer, Robert - 2022

This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of measurement errors in nighttime light data across countries. The estimated elasticity is 1.55 for...

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Effect of Exchange Rate Movements on Inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kemoe, Laurent - 2024

This paper provides new evidence on the exchange rate passthrough to domestic inflation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) using both bilateral US dollar exchange rate and the nominal effective exchange rate (NEER), and monthly data. We find that depreciations cause sizable increases in domestic...

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External Adjustment and Equilibrium Exchange Rate in Brazil.

Paiva, Claudio - 2006

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Determinants of Venezuela's Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate.

Zalduendo, Juan - 2006

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Exchange Rate Misalignment : An Application of the Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate (BEER) to Botswana

Iimi, Atsushi - 2006

-- IV. ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK -- V. ESTIMATION RESULTS -- VI. DISCUSSION -- VII. CONCLUSION -- EXPERIENCES OF OTHER COUNTRIES …

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To Smooth or Not to Smooth - The Impact of Grants and Remittances on the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate in Jordan.

Petri, Martin - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DATA AND METHODOLOGY -- III. MODELING AND INTERPRETING THE EQUILIBRIUM REAL EXCHANGE RATE -- IV. ASSESSING THE EQUILIBRIUM REAL EXCHANGE RATE -- V. CONCLUSIONS -- Appendix: Methodological Problems with Smoothing -- REFERENCES.

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Tanzania's Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate

Hobdari, Niko - 2008

Tanzania's real effective exchange rate (REER) has depreciated sharply since end-2000, reversing the appreciation that took place in the second half of the 1990s. Single-country and panel data estimates, and the external sustainability approach, suggest that Tanzania's REER is currently modestly...

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Estimating Equilibrium Exchange Rates for Armenia and Georgia

Ding, Shuang - 2008

The significant real exchange rate appreciation in Armenia and Georgia since 2003, coupled with persistent current account deficits, raises the question of whether real exchange rates have become overvalued. This paper seeks to identify possible exchange rate misalignment by applying the...

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