Switzerland's international investment position shows a puzzling feature since 1999: Large and persistent current account surpluses have failed to boost the value of Swiss foreign assets. In this paper, we link this pattern to the substantial increase in the leveraging of Switzerland's...

Sustained large U.S. current account deficits have led some economists and policymakers to worry that future current account adjustment could occur through a sudden and disruptive depreciation of the dollar and a sharp drop in U.S. consumption. Two factors that, to date, have cast doubt on such...

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.

Economic agents undertake actions to protect themselves from sort-run impact of foreign exchange rate fluctuations: Nominal goods prices are set in consumer' currencies and firms hedge foreign exchange risk. A model is presented here which shows that these features of the economy can lead to...