Exchange Rates and Export Structure

Nonlinearity In Exchange Rates and Forecasting

Market Structure and the Persistence of Sectoral Real Exchange Rates

We examine the relationship between market structure and the persistence of US dollar-based sectoral real exchange rates for 14 OECD countries. Our empirical results based on disaggregated data suggest that differences in market structure significantly determine the rates at which deviations from sectoral purchasing power parity decay. Specifically, industries with a larger price-cost margin ar...

Agricultural Export and Exchange Rates in India: The Granger Causality Approach

This paper is an attempt to investigate the causal relationships among quantity of agricultural export and real exchange rate in India by using time series data for the period between 1980 and 2010. All the macroeconomic series used here are non-stationary, integrated at order one but not co-integrated. The long run relationships between exchange rates and agricultural export were explored by u...

Can Africa Export Manufactures? the Role of Endowment, Exchange Rates and Transaction Costs

Exchange rates.

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