Rare Disasters and Exchange Rates

Emmanuel Farhi, Xavier Gabaix

NBER Working Paper No. 13805
Issued in February 2008

---- Acknowledgements -----

For helpful comments, we thank Andy Atkeson, David Backus, Robert Barro, Daniel Cohen, Alex Edmans, Christian Julliard, Pat and Tim Kehoe, Raj Mehra, Emi Nakamura, Eric van Wincoop, and seminar participants at Boston University, Dartmouth, LBS, LSE, Minneapolis Fed, NBER, New York Fed, NYU, UBC, and the University of Virginia. Gabaix thanks the NSF for support. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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