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This paper analyzes the effects of exchange rate volatility on bilateral trade flows. Through use of a gravity model … attention is reserved for problems of simultaneous causality. The negative correlation between trade and bilateral volatility …
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The negative and stable relationship between an economy's aggregate demand conditions and overall unemployment is well …-documented. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the cyclical sensitivities of unemployment across worker and … economy groups. First, unemployment is more than twice as sensitive to aggregate demand in advanced as in emerging market and …
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the United States, Germany and Japan is not inconsistent with exchange rate volatility implied by consumption … for the period 1970–92. Simulation results indicate that the observed volatility of multilateral real exchange rates for …
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How much convergence has been achieved between Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies and the eurozone? We … explore this question by comparing long-run volatility trends in CEE currencies and the euro. We find that these trends are … euro. Spillovers of volatility across regional markets appear to have diminished over time, with the exception of the …
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standard estimation technique of exchange rate pass-through to inflation is extended to incorporate exchange rate volatility …Does the South African rand's relatively large volatility affect inflation? To shed some light on this question, a …. Estimated results suggest that higher exchange rate volatility tends to increase core inflation but to a relatively limited …
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This paper investigates the consequences of exchange rate volatility on the variability of export prices and quantities …
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We examine the mean-reverting properties of real exchange rates, by comparing the unit root properties of a group of international real exchange rates with two groups of intra-national real exchange rates. Strikingly, we find that while the international real rates taken as a group appear...
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This paper presents a method to test the volatility predictions of the textbook asset-pricing exchange rate model … builds on existing tests of excess volatility in asset prices, combining them with a procedure that extracts unobservable … 1984 and find broad evidence of excess exchange rate volatility with respect to the predictions of the canonical asset …
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This paper investigates the relationship between the nominal exchange rate regime and the volatility of relative … for primary commodities, the volatility of relative commodity prices rises when exchange rate uncertainty increases. If …
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