Exchange rates and oligopoly

Nonlinearity In Exchange Rates and Forecasting

Exchange rates.

THE UNIVERSITY of Pennsylvania health system was in London recently, recruiting nurses. Its advertisement stated that its recruiters were experienced in hiring nurses from the UK, Ireland and the Philippines, and an 'on the spot job offer is a possibility'. This one advert neatly captures the dynamics of the new international nursing labour market. The advert was placed by an international recr...

The Scope for Exchange Rate Pass-through in an Oligopoly

This paper represents one of the first analyses of exchange rate pass-through in a dynamic context. It explores the impact of exchange rate fluctuations in a duopoly where firms interact over an indefinite period of time. In these circumstances there exists an incentive for the duopolists to tacitly collude. The paper investigates the manner in which exchange rate changes influence the inherent...

On exchange rates and efficiency*

This paper analyzes an exchange economy in which several assets serve as stores of value and where agents have completely heterogeneous preferences and endowments. It describes the set of perfect foresight equilibria in which all assets have positive prices. There are international policies with determinate exchange rates if the world economy satisfies a strong efficiency criterion. Also, the c...

International Prices and Exchange Rates

We survey the recent empirical and theoretical developments in the literature on the relation between prices and exchange rates. After updating some of the major findings in the empirical literature we present a simple framework to interpret this evidence. We review theoretical models that generate insensitivity of prices to exchange rate changes through variable markups, both under flexible pr...