Real Exchange Rate Volatility and the Price of Nontradables in Sudden-Stop-Prone Economies /

This paper shows that the dominant view that the high variability of real exchange rates is due to movements in exchange rate-adjusted prices of tradable goods does not hold for Mexican data for periods with a managed exchange rate. The relative price of nontradables accounts for up to 70 percent of...

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Autor Principal: Mendoza, Enrique
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2006.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2006/088
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF