Real exchange rates and skills

Inequality and Real Exchange Rates

Kocherlakota and Pistaferri (2007) describe two different models (Private Information Pareto Optimal and Incomplete Markets) of how households partially insure themselves against idiosyncratic shocks. They demonstrate that the models differ in terms of their implications for real exchange rates. In this paper, we use data from a wide range of countries, and document that there is a statististic...

Persistent Real Exchange Rates

Three features of the international exchange rate data that are widely known are: (a) a high correlation between bilateral nominal and real exchange rates; (b) real exchange rate movements are highly persistent; and (c) real exchange rates are highly volatile. This paper attempts a joint, albeit partial, rationalization of these facts in an environment with no staggered contracts and where pric...

Fractional cointegration and real exchange rates

This paper uses fractional integration and cointegration in order to model the DM/dollar and the yen/dollar real exchange rates in terms of both monetary and real factors, more specifically real interest rate and labour productivity differentials. We find that whilst the individual series may be integrated of order 1, their long-run relationship might have a fractionally cointegrated structure....

Real exchange rates , dollarization and industrial

Fiscal policy and real exchange rates

Firms with higher debt relative to its size and negative cash °ows have lower value in the market. Why not the same applies to a currency value of a country? This paper investigates this question and shows empirical evidence that indeed a lower degree of government's ̄scal solvency, represented by higher debt and lower surpluses, implies an real exchange rate depreciation. Empirical results als...