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Is purchasing power parity a useful guide to the dollar?
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Income: up or down?
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Intra-national, intra-continental, and intra-planetary PPP
This paper presents a general framework to address several issues that have arisen in recent work that investigates purchasing power parity (PPP) and other inter-regional relative price movements: (1) How can we model real exchange rate movements in a consistent manner, so that our model for the real exchange rate for country B relative to country C is commensurate with our models for country A/ country B and country A/ country C real exchange rates? For example, can things be modeled so that our tests do not depend on the "base country"? (2) How should we handle correlation across real ...
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Real wages in the 1980s
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Purchasing power parity and uncovered interest rate parity: the United States 1974-1990
This paper examines the factors behind long-run movements of the dollar. Most recent work has concluded that structural exchange rate models explain only a small proportion of exchange rate movements. However, many economists still find the theory that links exchange rates and interest rates persuasive. We investigate the relationship between exchange rates, prices, and interest rates using multivariate maximum likelihood cointegration tests. In particular, we explicitly test for purchasing power parity and uncovered interest rate parity when using nominal exchange rates, and implicitly test ...
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Jargon alert: Inferior goods
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For here or to go? Purchasing power parity and the Big Mac
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Supersize me
Consumption trends suggest middle class continuing to get ahead.