Consumption and Real Exchange Rates With Incomplete Markets and Non-Traded Goods

CDMA Conference Paper No. 0405

32 Pages Posted: 11 Oct 2007

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Gianluca Benigno

Federal Reserve Bank of New York; London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics

Christoph Thoenissen

University of St. Andrews - School of Management; Bank of England - Monetary Analysis

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Date Written: December 2006

Abstract

This paper addresses the consumption-real exchange rate anomaly. International real business cycle models based on complete financial markets predict a unitary correlation between the real exchange rate and the ratio of home to foreign consumption when subjected to supply side shocks. In the data, this correlation is usually small and often negative. This paper shows that this anomaly can be successfully addressed by models that have an incomplete financial market structure and a non-traded as well as traded goods production sector.

Keywords: Consumption-real exchange rate anomaly, incomplete financial markets, non-traded goods.

JEL Classification: F31, F41

Suggested Citation

Benigno, Gianluca and Benigno, Gianluca and Thoenissen, Christoph, Consumption and Real Exchange Rates With Incomplete Markets and Non-Traded Goods (December 2006). CDMA Conference Paper No. 0405, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1019240 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1019240

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