Author : Yin-Wong Cheung
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Book Synopsis Market Structure and the Persistence of Sectoral Real Exchange Rates by : Yin-Wong Cheung
Download or read book Market Structure and the Persistence of Sectoral Real Exchange Rates written by Yin-Wong Cheung and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine the relationship between market structure and the persistence of U.S. dollar-based sectoral real exchange rates for fourteen OECD countries. Our empirical results based on disaggregated data suggest that differences in market structure significantly determine the rates at which deviations from sectoral purchasing power parity decay. Specifically, industries with a larger price-cost margin are found to exhibit slower parity reversion of their sectoral real exchange rates. Further, as the degree of intra-industry trade activity increases, sectoral real exchange rate persistence becomes more pronounced. These findings imply that an imperfectly competitive market structure contributes to the well-documented persistence in real exchange rates.