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How Far Has the Dollar Fallen? / Philippe Bacchetta, Martin Feldstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bacchetta, Philippe.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w2122.
- NBER working paper series no. w2122
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Currency question.
- Dollar, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1987.
- Cambridge : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1987.
- Summary:
- The present paper introduces a new index of the real value of the dollar relative to 80 other currencies. The individual exchange rates are combined with weights that reflect the recent (1984) multilateral pattern of trade. This new index confirms that the dollar rose very sharply between January 1980 and February 1985 and that about two-thirds of that appreciation was reversed by July 1986. This is true for both our multilateral and bilateral real indices. The analysis also shows that any index that fails to adjust for differences in inflation rates will give a very misleading impression of the dollar's evolution in the 1980s.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- 1987.
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