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The Importance of Nontradable Goods' Prices in Cyclical Real Exchange Rate Fluctuations

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Ariel Burstein
Martin Eichenbaum
Sergio Rebelo

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Changes in the price of nontradable goods relative to tradable goods account for roughly 50 percent of the cyclical movements in real exchange rates.

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