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

Juan Pablo Nicolini (), Constantino Hevia and Joao Ayres

Department of Economics Working Papers from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

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: 55 pages
Date: 2021-09
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