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

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Ariel Burstein (University of California at Los Angeles)
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University, NBER, and Federal Reserve of Chicago.)
Sergio Rebelo (Northwestern University, NBER, and CEPR.)

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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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Paper provided by University of Rochester - Center for Economic Research (RCER) in its series RCER Working Papers with number 523.

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