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作者：GOLDBERG, LS
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作者：DEVEREUX, M
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作者：KASA, K
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：This paper develops an adjustment cost model of pricing-to-market. The model consists of a monopolist who supplies an identical, nondurable good to two foreign markets. It is shown that the degree of pricing-to-market increases with the relative importance of the transitory component in exchange rates. Customs data from 1978 through 1987 on U.S. and Canadian imports of seven German commodities are used to estimate the model's parameters and test its over-identifying restrictions.
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作者：KING, RG; WALLACE, N; WEBER, WE
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - Minneapolis
摘要：This paper shows that there can be equilibria in which exchange rates display randomness unrelated to fundamentals. This is demonstrated in the context of a two-currency, one-good model, with three agent types and cash-in-advance constraints. A crucial feature is that the type i agents, for i = 1, 2, must satisfy a cash-in-advance constraint by holding currency i, while type 3 agents can satisfy it by holding either currency. It is shown that real allocations vary across the multiple equilibri...
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作者：GLEN, JD
摘要：This paper uses long-horizon autocorrelations and variance ratio statistics to test for long-term mean reversion in real exchange rates. Unlike most previous tests of this hypothesis, the tests do reject a random walk for monthly data in the post-Bretton Woods era; however, the statistics indicate that positively-correlated innovations, rather than mean reversion, are the source of the rejection. Tests using annual data for the twentieth century also reject the random walk. In this case, howev...
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作者：BAYOUMI, T
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作者：BAYOUMI, T
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作者：BAYOUMI, T
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作者：BRECHER, RA
摘要：This paper develops an efficiency-wage model of involuntary unemployment in a small open economy, which uses two factors to produce three goods, one of which is (non-traded) monitoring aimed at reducing shirking by workers in all industries. The analysis shows how a tariff on imports may lower employment but, paradoxically, raise social welfare at the same time. As the paper also demonstrates, the optimal policy combination includes not only taxes on capital and monitoring as well as a subsidy...
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作者：WHEELER, D; MODY, A
作者单位：The World Bank
摘要：In international 'location tournaments', governments compete for foreign investment with tax and other short-run incentives. Such tournaments can be won if agglomeration economies are sufficiently powerful to overcome investors' desire to spread investments as a hedge against risk. We focus on manufacturing investments by U.S. multinationals in the 1980s. Our econometric results suggest that agglomeration economies are indeed the dominant influence on investor calculations. Paradoxically, shor...
