Handbook of International Economics

Chapter 7

International Prices and Exchange Rates*

Ariel Burstein^{a, b} and Gita Gopinath^{b, c},    ^aUniversity of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, ^bNational Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, USA, ^cHarvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Abstract

We survey the recent empirical and theoretical developments in the literature on the relation between prices and exchange rates. After updating some of the major findings in the empirical literature, we present a simple framework to interpret this evidence. We review theoretical models that generate insensitivity of prices to exchange rate changes through variable markups, both under flexible prices and nominal rigidities, first in partial equilibrium and then in general equilibrium.

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