Currencies, Commodities and Consumption

Currencies, Commodities and Consumption

Author: Kenneth W. Clements

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-01-31

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 110701476X

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Discusses economic issues associated with exchange rates, commodity prices, the economic size of countries and alternatives to PPP exchange rates.


The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization

The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization

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Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2012-12-31

Total Pages: 807

ISBN-13: 012405899X

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The sharp realities of financial globalization become clear during crises, when winners and losers emerge. Crises usher in short- and long-term changes to the status quo, and everyone agrees that learning from crises is a top priority. The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization devotes separate articles to specific crises, the conditions that cause them, and the longstanding arrangements devised to address them. While other books and journal articles treat these subjects in isolation, this volume presents a wide-ranging, consistent, yet varied specificity. Substantial, authoritative, and useful, these articles provide material unavailable elsewhere. - Substantial articles by top scholars sets this volume apart from other information sources - Rapidly developing subjects will interest readers well into the future - Reader demand and lack of competitors underline the high value of these reference works


An Empirical Assessment of the Exchange Rate Pass-through in Mozambique

An Empirical Assessment of the Exchange Rate Pass-through in Mozambique

Author: International Monetary Fund

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2021-05-06

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1513573691

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Determining the magnitude and speed of the exchange rate passthrough (ERPT) to inflation has been of paramount importance for policy-makers in developed and emerging economies. This paper estimates the exchange rate passthrough in Mozambique using econometric techniques on a sample spanning from 2001 to 2019. Results suggest that the ERPT is assymetric, sizable and fast, with 50 percent of the exchange rate variations passing through to prices in less than six months. Policy-makers should continue to pursue low and stable inflation and develop a strong track record of prudent macroeconomic policies for the ERPT to decline.


Exchange Rate Economics

Exchange Rate Economics

Author: Ronald MacDonald

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1134838220

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''In summary, the book is valuable as a textbook both at the advanced undergraduate level and at the graduate level. It is also very useful for the economist who wants to be brought up-to-date on theoretical and empirical research on exchange rate behaviour.'' ""Journal of International Economics""


International Comparisons of Real Product and Purchasing Power

International Comparisons of Real Product and Purchasing Power

Author: Irving B. Kravis

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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The purpose of the United Nations International Comparison Project (ICP) is to compare the purchasing power of currencies and the real gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of different countries. It is well known that the usual method of converting the GDPs of different countries to a common currency, usually U.S. dollars, at existing exchange rates is misleading because exchange rates do not necessarily reflect the purchasing power of currencies. The ICP has found that the purchasing power of a country's currency over GDP can be as much as three times its dollar exchange rate, and thus the real GDP per capita is three times the value shown in an exchange-rate conversion. The unsatisfactory nature of exchange-rate conversions has become even clearer in the past few years under the new regime of managed floating rates. Changes in exchange rates of as much as 20 percent within the space of a year have not been unusual even among major currencies.


A Tract on Monetary Reform

A Tract on Monetary Reform

Author: John Maynard Keynes

Publisher: Cosimo Classics

Published: 1923

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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"The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead." -John Maynard Keynes, A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923) A Tract on Monetary Reform (1923), by British economist John Maynard Keynes, is a masterly analysis of the world monetary situation at the beginning of the twentieth century. Keynes stated the importance of stable domestic prices and a stable currency for a strong economy, while arguing against the gold standard, which at that time was used for the US dollar and many other currencies. Britain abandoned the gold standard in 1931-after it had re-established it in 1925-and the United States abandoned the gold standard in 1933. A Tract on Monetary Reform is essential reading for anyone interested in Keynes' theories and for students of economics or economic history.


Purchasing Power Parity and Real Exchange Rates

Purchasing Power Parity and Real Exchange Rates

Author: Mark P. Taylor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1317988205

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The term Purchasing Power Parity may date from the early twentieth century, when it was coined by the Swedish economist Gustav Cassel, but the underlying concept had been enjoying varying degrees of success since its development in sixteenth century Spain. Even towards the end of the twentieth century, and especially since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates, PPP and the stability of real exchange rates continued to be the subject of academic debate. This volume brings together essays covering aspects of current thinking on Purchasing Power Parity, from the various ways in which to test for its existence, to its appearance in different economies around the world, to examinations of the explanations given when PPP does not appear to hold This book was published as a special issue of Applied Financial Economics. The academic editor of this journal is Mark P. Taylor.


Handbook of International Economics

Handbook of International Economics

Author: R.W. Jones

Publisher: North Holland

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 654

ISBN-13:

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Textbook, research papers on international economic theory, economic policy and practice - includes a literature survey of theoretical studies in trade relations; covers evolution of economic models explaining the determinants of trade structure, capital flow, labour mobility, trade in natural resources, etc.; examines macroeconomics aspects of balance of payments, exchange rate, international monetary system, economic relations and dependence, etc. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.


Exchange Rates and Corporate Performance

Exchange Rates and Corporate Performance

Author: Yakov Amihud

Publisher: Beard Books

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781587981593

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This is a reprint of a previously published book. It consists of a series of papers by experts in the field on how the exchange rate volatility of the 1980s affected the financial policies of international firms.


PPP Strikes Back

PPP Strikes Back

Author: Mr. Haroon Mumtaz

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2003-04-01

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13: 1451895534

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We show the importance of a dynamic aggregation bias in accounting for the PPP puzzle. We prove that established time-series and panel methods substantially exaggerate the persistence of real exchange rates because of heterogeneity in the dynamics of disaggregated relative prices. When heterogeneity is properly taken into account, estimates of the real exchange rate half-life fall dramatically, to little more than one year, or significantly below Rogoff''s "consensus view" of three to five years. We show that corrected estimates are consistent with plausible nominal rigidities, thus, arguably, solving the PPP puzzle.