Over the Hedge : Exchange Rate Volatility, Commodity Price Correlations, and the Structure of Trade

A long empirical literature has examined the idea that, in the absence of hedging mechanisms, currency risk should have an adverse effect on the export volumes of risk averse exporters. But there are no clear conclusions from this literature, and t...

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Main Author: Raddatz, Claudio
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
GDP
PEG
Online Access:http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20110315085110
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/3357