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The real exchange rate and household consumption heterogeneity: Testing Kocherlakota and Pistaferri’s (2007) model

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Does household heterogeneity matter for exchange rate determination? This paper tests Kocherlakota and Pistaferri’s (2007) prominent heterogeneous agent model, in which the real exchange rate perfectly tracks relative domestic/foreign moments of cross-household consumption distributions. The evidence presented here indicates that the real exchange rate is disconnected from relative cross-household consumption moments.

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  • Kollmann, Robert, 2021. "The real exchange rate and household consumption heterogeneity: Testing Kocherlakota and Pistaferri’s (2007) model," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 209(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:209:y:2021:i:c:s0165176521003876
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.110110
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    • F3 - International Economics - - International Finance
    • F4 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance
    • G1 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets

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