TY  - UNPD
A1  - Weber, Axel A.
A1  - Beck, Günter W.
T1  - Economic integration and the exchange rate regime: how damaging are currency crises? : [This Version: October 2003]
T2  - Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2001,13 - revised
N2  - We use consumer price data for 205 cities/regions in 21 countries to study PPP deviations before, during and after the major currency crises of the 1990s. We combine data from industrialized nations in North America (Unites States, Canada and Mexico), Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal), Asia (Japan and South Korea), and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand) with corresponding data from emerging market economies in South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Columbia) and Asia (India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand). By doing so, we confirm previous results that both distance and border explain a significant amount of relative price variation across different locations. We also find that currency attacks had major disintegration effects by considerably increasing these border effects and by raising within-country relative price dispersion in emerging market economies. These effects are found to be quite persistent since relative price volatility across emerging markets today is still significantly larger than a decade ago.
T3  - CFS working paper series - 2001, 13 
KW  - relative price volatility
KW  - spatial data
KW  - real exchange rate volatility
KW  - law of one price
KW  - purchasing power parity
KW  - currency crisis
KW  - contagion
KW  - Verbraucherpreis
KW  - Währungskrise
Y1  - 2003
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/4509
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-9909
N1  - This Version: October 2003 First Version: November 2001
IS  - This Version: October 2003
ER  -