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Our study develops a model of the balance of trade, which is a function of domestic (U.S.) and foreign real GDPs, exchange rate of U.S. dollar, and monetary policy (credit easing) dummy. We then empirically test the model on a panel data for the U.S. and BRICS countries over the period, 1995-2014, and find that the Fed’s quantitative easing has no effect, whatsoever, on U.S. balance of trade.
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