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example, can make the effect of a traded-goods productivity improvement on the real exchange rate negative or positive, as … on the relationship between productivity and the real exchange rate. …
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1970 to 2008 and compare three different datasets on sectoral productivity, including a newly constructed database on total … factor productivity. Overall, our DOLS estimation results do not support the BS hypothesis. For the last two decades, we find … a very robust negative relationship between the productivity in the tradable sector and the equilibrium real exchange …
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Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the … real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample … argue that changes in trade costs over time may affect the impact of productivity on the real exchange rate over time. We …
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Since Friedman (1953), an advantage often attributed to flexible exchange rate regimes over fixed regimes is their ability to insulate more effectively the economy against real shocks. I use a post-Bretton Woods sample (1973-96) of seventy-five developing countries to assess whether the...
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interdependencies between the terms of trade and economic growth are offered: the home market effect and the productivity shock effect …
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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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persistence typically proceed along two distinct paths, resorting either to the presence of real shocks such as productivity …
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This paper analyzes the welfare implications of international spillovers related to productivity gains, changes in …-equilibrium model with monopolistic competition, drawing a distinction between productivity gains from manufacturing efficiency and …
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We develop a simple model of the exchange rate in which agents optimize their portfolio and use different forecasting rules. They check the profitability of these rules ex post and select the more profitable one. This model produces two kinds of equilibria, a fundamental and a bubble one. In a...
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We present a simple behavioral model with chartists and fundamentalists and analyze their trading behavior in a floating regime and in a target zone regime. Regarding the floating regime the model replicates the well-known stylized facts like excessive volatility, fat tails, volatility...
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