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Record Nr.

UNINA9910703335903321

Autore

Obstfeld Maurice

Titolo

Exchange Rate Dynamics With Sluggish Prices Under Alternative Price-Adjustment Rules / / Maurice Obstfeld, Kenneth Rogoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass, : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1983

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Board], , [1983]

Edizione

[Rev. May 1983.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white);

Collana

NBER working paper series ; no. w1173

Classificazione

F

Altri autori (Persone)

RogoffKenneth

Soggetti

International Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

August 1983.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page R1-R3).

Sommario/riassunto

This paper studies exchange rate behavior in models with moving long-run equilibria incorporating alternative price-adjustment mechanisms.The paper demonstrates that price-adjustment rules proposed by Mussa andby Barro and Grossman yield models that are empirically indistinguishable from each other. For speeds of goods-market adjustment that are "too fast," the Barro-Grossman rule appears to induce instability; but we argue that when the ruleis interpreted properly, models incorporating it are dynamically stable regardless of the speed at which disequilibriumis eliminated. The Barro-Grossman pricing scheme is shown to be a natural generalization, to a setting of moving long-run equilibria, of less versatile schemes proposed in earlier literature on exchange rate dynamics.