The Importance of Nontradable Goods' Prices in Cyclical Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations

Ariel Tomas Burstein, Martin Eichenbaum () and Sergio Rebelo ()

No 11699, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Changes in the price of nontradable goods relative to tradable goods account for roughly 50 percent of the cyclical movements in real exchange rates.

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Date: 2005-10
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