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

Joao Ayres, Constantino Hevia and Juan Pablo Nicolini

No 781, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Primary commodity prices; Mussa puzzle; Backus-Smith puzzle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56
Date: 2021-09-24
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DOI: 10.21034/wp.781

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