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Forecasting Exchange Rates and Relative Prices with the Hamburger Standard: Is What You Want What You Get With McParity? [PDF]
A decade ago the Economist began an annual survey of Big Mac prices as a guide to whether currencies are trading at the right exchange rates. This paper asks how well the hamburger standard has performed. Although average deviations from absolute Big Mac
Robert E. Cumby
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Green Hunter or Green Detractor? Strategic Orientations and Green Revenues
British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract We bridge a research gap concerning whether varying strategic orientations can be aligned with the transition to greener business practices. Drawing on resource‐based theory and stakeholder theory, we investigate how growth‐ and profit‐oriented strategic orientations shape firms’ capacity to generate green revenues that integrate economic ...
June Cao +2 more
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The Overvaluation of Renminbi Undervaluation [PDF]
We evaluate whether the Renminbi (RMB) is misaligned, relying upon conventional statistical methods of inference. A framework built around the relationship between relative price and relative output levels is used. We find that, once sampling uncertainty
Eiji Fujii +2 more
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The Canary Down the Coalmine: Dagenham, London and Labour Politics
The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract The history of Dagenham offers unique insights into both the changing composition of the working class and the forces that have reshaped domestic politics throughout the last 100 years, particularly the politics of the British labour movement.
Jon Cruddas
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Sources of Purchasing Power Disparities Between the G3-Economies [PDF]
Recent theoretical and empirical research in international macroeconomics has rediscovered the problem of purchasing power parity (PPP). Empirically, PPP is a bad approximation of both the short-term and medium-term properties of the data.
Weber, Axel A.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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A Monetary Approach to Exchange Rate Dynamics in Low-Income Countries: Evidence from Kenya [PDF]
The flexible price monetary model assumes that both the purchasing power parity (PPP) and uncovered interest parity (UIP) hold continuously. In addition, the model posits that money market equilibrium exists, which helps to determine the exchange rate ...
Mohan, Ramesh, Nandwa, Boaz
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Pass‐Through of Cocoa Prices Along the Supply Chain: What's Left for Farmers in Côte d'Ivoire?
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire are trapped in a cycle of poverty and farming practices that degrade the environment. This paper aims to provide an in‐depth understanding of the price formation process for cocoa at each stage of the supply chain in the world's largest cocoa‐producing country.
Kathrin Kaestner +2 more
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Women's Off‐Farm Employment and Dietary Quality in Rural Africa
Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most households in rural Africa are involved in smallholder farming, but off‐farm employment is an important additional income source for many. Previous research has analysed links between off‐farm employment and well‐being, but mostly at the household level, not considering that household members may be affected differently.
Chrispinus Mutsami +2 more
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PPP Strikes Back: Aggregation and the Real Exchange Rate [PDF]
We show the importance of a dynamic aggregation bias in accounting for the PPP puzzle. We prove that established time series and panel methods substantially exaggerate the persistence of real exchange rates because of heterogeneity in the dynamics of ...
Haroon Mumtaz +3 more
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