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Real Exchange Rates and Primary Commodity Prices: Mussa Meets Backus-Smith

We show that explicitly modeling primary commodities in an otherwise totally standard incomplete markets open economy model can go a long way in explaining the Mussa puzzle and the Backus-Smith puzzle, two of the main puzzles in the international economics literature.
Working Papers , Paper 781

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Online Appendix for: Real Exchange Rates and Primary Commodity Prices: Mussa Meets Backus-Smith

Working Papers , Paper 782

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International Asset Markets and Real Exchange Rate Volatility

The real exchange rate is very volatile relative to major macroeconomic aggregates and its correlation with the ratio of domestic over foreign consumption is negative (Backus-Smith puzzle). These two observations constitute a puzzle to standard international macroeconomic theory. This paper develops a two country model with complete asset markets and limited enforcement for international financial contracts that provides a possible explanation of these two puzzles. The model performs better than a standard incomplete markets model with a single non-contingent bond unless very tight borrowing ...
International Finance Discussion Papers , Paper 884

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