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A Darwinian perspective on "exchange rate undervaluation"
Du, Qingyuan; Wei, Shang-jin - 2015
This paper studies how status competition for marriage partners can generate surprising effects on the real exchange rate (RER). In theory, a rise in the sex ratio (increasing relative surplus of men) can generate a decline in the RER. The effect can be quantitatively large if the biological...
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Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on Tax Revenue Performance In Sub-Saharan Africa
Ofori, Isaac K.; Obeng, Kwasi Camara; Yeltulme … - 2021
Efforts to spur growth in sub-Sahara Africa have been intensified amid structural and institutional constraints. Tax revenue, the chief source of funding for developmental purposes in SSA remains low and unstable. In fact, the SSA sub-region finds it difficult generating tax revenue up to 20 per...
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Exchange rate misalignment in oil exporting countries (OPEC) : focusing on Iran
Mozayani, Amir H.; Parvizi, Sanaz - In: Iranian economic review : journal of University of Tehran 20 (2016) 2, pp. 261-276
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Death of Canadian Manufacturing Plants : Heterogeneous Responses to Changes in Tariffs and Real Exchange Rates
Baldwin, John R. - 2010
We examine the simultaneous effects of real-exchange-rate movements and of tariff reductions on plant death in Canadian manufacturing industries between 1979 and 1996. We find that both currency appreciation and tariff cuts increase the probability of plant death, but that tariff reductions have...
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The worst of both worlds : fiscal policy and fixed exchange rates
Born, Benjamin; Ascanio, Francesco D; Müller, Gernot J.; … - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012200419
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RMB exchange rate and China's economic growth : the empirical analysis from a structural VAR model
Su, Cancan; Wu, Jia - In: International journal of economics and finance 9 (2017) 7, pp. 189-199
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Supply Shocks and Real Exchange Rate Volatility in a Small Open Economy
Azcona, Nestor - 2016
This paper examines the effect of overall and sector-specific productivity shocks on the real exchange rate in small open economies. A dynamic stochastic small open economy model shows that productivity shocks impact the real exchange rate mostly through changes in the relative price of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005242
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The worst of both worlds : fiscal policy and fixed exchange rates
Born, Benjamin; D'Ascanio, Francesco; Müller, Gernot J.; … - 2019
Under fixed exchange rates, fiscal policy is an effective tool. According to classical views because it impacts the real exchange rate, according to Keynesian views because it impacts output. Both views have merit because the effects of government spending are asymmetric. A spending cut lowers...
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Do exchange rates absorb demand shocks at the ZLB?
Hoffmann, Mathias; Hürtgen, Patrick - 2021
appreciates in response to an asymmetric negative demand shock at the zero lower bound (ZLB) and exacerbates the adverse … at the ZLB. In sharp contrast to the full information model: (i) A negative demand shock concentrated in the home country … causes a real exchange rate depreciation that partially absorbs the demand shock. (ii) A VAR with an identified demand shock …
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Economic policy uncertainty shocks, economic activity, and exchange rate adjustments
Nilavongse, Rachatar; Rubaszek, Michał; Uddin, … - In: Economics letters 186 (2020), pp. 1-4
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