Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/47554 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Tübinger Diskussionsbeiträge No. 213
Publisher: 
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Tübingen
Abstract: 
The paper analyses the causality between the Japanese-US relative export prices and the yen-dollar exchange rate. It explains why the Japanese yen proved strong even during the economic slump of the 1990s. The paper suggests that the appreciation of the Japanese yen forced the Japanese enterprises into price reductions and productivity increases, which put a floor under the high level of the yen and thus initiated rounds of appreciation. This corresponds to the conjecture of a vicious (virtuous) circle of appreciation and price adaptation.
Subjects: 
yen
yen-dollar exchange rate
purchasing power parity
Granger causality test
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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