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As cross-border movements of goods, capital, and labor are intensifying, it is likely that goods markets in East Asia will become increasingly integrated. This study investigates the current state of goods market integration in East Asia by measuring the extent of cross-border price...
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The paper analyses the causality between the Japanese-US relative export prices and the yen-dollar exchange rate. It …
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During the 1990's the Japanese yen proved astonishingly strong despite the persisting recession. This paper tracks the origins of the high yen. It analyses the influence of interest rates, prices and foreign exchange policy on the yen-dollar exchange rate. It comes to the conclusion that real...
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Seit Ausbruch der Finanzkrise im Herbst 2007 ist der Wert des Franken handelsgewichtet in nominaler Rechnung um ein Drittel gestiegen. Dennoch bleiben im Frankenraum die Importpreise in heimischer Währung relativ konstant. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Untersuchung werden für den Zeitraum 1974...
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This paper examines the impact of exchange rates and import prices on the domestic producer price index and consumer price index in selected industrialized economies. The empirical model is a vector autoregression incorporating a distribution chain of pricing. When the model is estimated over...
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The inertia of the local-currency prices of traded goods in the face of exchange-rate changes is a well-documented phenomenon in international economics. This paper develops a structural model to identify the sources of this local-currency price stability and applies it to microdata from the...
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Der Yen ist in der japanischen Rezession der 90er Jahre überraschend stark geblieben. Der Aufsatz untersucht die Ursachen für den hohen Yen. Er analysiert den Einfluss von Zinsen, Preisen und Währungspolitik. Danach haben reale Zinsdifferenzen allenfalls einen kurzfristigen Einfluss auf den...
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By building a theoretical model and taking it to the data with two novel datasets, this paper analyses the interaction between credit constraints and exporting behaviour. Building a heterogeneous firms model of international trade with liquidity-constrained firms yields several predictions on...
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Die deutsche Wirtschaft wickelt gut 40 % ihres internationalen Warenhandels innerhalb des Euroraums ab. Dennoch ist sie von Veränderungen der Währungsrelationen betroffen, weil die Verflechtung der Weltwirtschaft noch immer zunimmt und Wechselkursveränderungen des Euro auch den Wettbewerb im...
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