This paper investigates the relationship between manufacturing profits, exports, and the real exchange rate. Using Harston's (1990) model of pricing-to-market, we derive a co-integrated log-linear profits equation that restricts the long-run relationship among real U.S. manufacturing profits,...

This paper develops framework to estimate and interpret the factor content of equilibrium real exchange rates. The framework - which builds on Backus, Foresi, and Telmer (2001) and Ang Piazzesi (2003) - respects the restrictions imposed by stochastic discount factors that generate standard, no...