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A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates

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  • Hakan Yilmazkuday

    (Vanderbilt)

  • Mario Crucini

    (Vanderbilt)

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We develop a model of international cities with each city inhabited by two representative agents, one specializing in manufacturing,ther other in distribution. Using a panel of micro=prices at the city level, we decompose the long-run cross-sectional variance of LOP deviations into the fraction due to distribution costs, trade costs anda residual. For the median good, we find trade costs account for 50 percent of the variance of real exchange rates.

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  • Hakan Yilmazkuday & Mario Crucini, 2009. "A Model of International Cities: Implications for Real Exchange Rates," 2009 Meeting Papers 1271, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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    1. Crucini, Mario J. & Shintani, Mototsugu & Tsuruga, Takayuki, 2010. "Accounting for persistence and volatility of good-level real exchange rates: The role of sticky information," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 81(1), pages 48-60, May.
    2. Andrade, Philippe & Zachariadis, Marios, 2016. "Global versus local shocks in micro price dynamics," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 98(C), pages 78-92.
    3. Giri, Rahul, 2012. "Local costs of distribution, international trade costs and micro evidence on the law of one price," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 86(1), pages 82-100.
    4. Bekkers, Eddy & Simonovska, Ina, 2015. "The Balassa–Samuelson effect and pricing-to-market: The role of strategic complementarity," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 126(C), pages 156-158.
    5. Hakan Yilmazkuday, 2012. "How wide is the border across U.S. states?," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, vol. 5(1), pages 25-31, March.
    6. Crucini, Mario J. & Davis, J. Scott, 2016. "Distribution capital and the short- and long-run import demand elasticity," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 203-219.
    7. Sposi, Michael, 2015. "Trade barriers and the relative price of tradables," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 96(2), pages 398-411.
    8. Sposi, Michael J., 2013. "Trade barriers and the relative price tradables," Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper 139, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.
    9. Chaban, Maxym, 2011. "Home bias, distribution services and determinants of real exchange rates," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 33(4), pages 793-806.
    10. Yilmazkuday, Hakan, 2009. "Is the Armington Elasticity Really Constant across Importers?," MPRA Paper 15954, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    11. Patricia Sourdin & Richard Pomfret, 2012. "Trade Facilitation," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 14596.
    12. Philippe Andrade & Marios Zachariadis, 2010. "Trends in International Prices," University of Cyprus Working Papers in Economics 02-2010, University of Cyprus Department of Economics.
    13. Crucini, Mario J. & Yilmazkuday, Hakan, 2014. "Understanding long-run price dispersion," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 66(C), pages 226-240.

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    JEL classification:

    • F0 - International Economics - - General
    • F15 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Economic Integration

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