Exchange Rate Dynamics with Sluggish Prices Under Alternative Price-adjustment Rules

Exchange Rate Dynamics with Sluggish Prices Under Alternative Price-adjustment Rules
Author: Maurice Obstfeld
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1983
Genre: Foreign exchange
ISBN:

This paper studies exchange rate behavior in models with moving long-run equilibria incorporating alternative price-adjustment mechanisms.The paper demonstrates that price-adjustment rules proposed by Mussa andby Barro and Grossman yield models that are empirically indistinguishable from each other. For speeds of goods-market adjustment that are "too fast," the Barro-Grossman rule appears to induce instability; but we argue that when the ruleis interpreted properly, models incorporating it are dynamically stable regardless of the speed at which disequilibriumis eliminated. The Barro-Grossman pricing scheme is shown to be a natural generalization, to a setting of moving long-run equilibria, of less versatile schemes proposed in earlier literature on exchange rate dynamics.

On Interpreting the Random Walk Behavior of Nominal and Real Exchange Rates

On Interpreting the Random Walk Behavior of Nominal and Real Exchange Rates
Author: Mr.Bankim Chadha
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 22
Release: 1991-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451842341

The random walk property of exchange rates is frequently regarded as carrying strong implications for the kinds of shocks that have driven exchange rates and the models appropriate for analyzing their behavior. This paper conducts stochastic simulations of Dornbusch’s (1976) sticky-price monetary model, calibrated for representative parameter values for the United States. It shows that the model is capable of generating time series for both real and nominal exchange rates that are statistically indistinguishable from random walks when all shocks are nominal.

Handbook of International Economics

Handbook of International Economics
Author: R.W. Jones
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 640
Release: 1984
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0444867937

This Handbook adopts a traditional definition of the subject, and focuses primarily on the explanation of international transactions in goods, services, and assets, and on the main domestic effects of those transactions. The first volume deals with the "real side" of international economics. It is concerned with the explanation of trade and factor flows, with their main effects on goods and factor prices, on the allocation of resources and income distribution and on economic welfare, and also with the effects on national policies designed explicitly to influence trade and factor flows. In other words, it deals chiefly with microeconomic issues and methods. The second volume deals with the "monetary side" of the subject. It is concerned with the balance of payments adjustment process under fixed exchange rates, with exchange rate determination under flexible exchange rates, and with the domestic ramifications of these phenomena. Accordingly, it deals mainly with economic issues, although microeconomic methods are frequently utilized, especially in work on expectations, asset markets, and exchange rate behavior. For more information on the Handbooks in Economics series, please see our home page on http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/hes

Macroeconomic Theory and Stabilization Policy

Macroeconomic Theory and Stabilization Policy
Author: Willem H. Buiter
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1989
Genre: Economic development
ISBN: 9780472101382

Brings together Buiter's major papers on macroeconomic theory and policy

Macroeconomic Modelling And Monetary And Exchange Rate Regimes

Macroeconomic Modelling And Monetary And Exchange Rate Regimes
Author: Paul R Masson
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2019-07-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811201730

This book presents articles that focus on the inter-related issues of choice of exchange rate and monetary policy regimes, and others that use a global macroeconomic model developed by the author and collaborators to quantify the effects of the 'baby boom' on global imbalances, costs of disinflation, and the effects of German unification. The book presents new analysis of the euro-zone experience and its applicability to other monetary unions, as well as a discussion of the prerequisites for successful inflation targeting. It is grounded in real-world data, readily accessible to non-specialists, and addresses important economic policy issues.

Real and Nominal Exchange Rates in the Long Run

Real and Nominal Exchange Rates in the Long Run
Author: Mr.Bankim Chadha
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 31
Release: 1991-06-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451848323

This paper decomposes longer-run movements in (major) dollar real exchange rates into components associated with changes in nominal exchange rates and price levels, and their comovements. Though the decompositions suggest some permanent movements, they imply that there are large transitory components in real exchange rates. These transitory components in real exchange rates are found to be closely associated with those in nominal exchange rates. A stochastic version of Dornbusch’s overshooting model—configured with representative parameter values for the United States and subjected to permanent nominal shocks—can rationalize these transitory comovements of nominal and real exchange rates as well as several other features of the decompositions.

Handbook of International Economics

Handbook of International Economics
Author: Ronald Winthrop Jones
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 896
Release: 1984
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0444828648

"This Handbook adopts a traditional definition of the subject, and focuses primarily on the explanation of international transactions in goods, services, and assets, and on the main domestic effects of those transactions. The first volume deals with the "real side" of international economics. It is concerned with the explanation of trade and factor flows, with their main effects on goods and factor prices, on the allocation of resources and income distribution and on economic welfare, and also with the effects on national policies designed explicitly to influence trade and factor flows. In other words, it deals chiefly with microeconomic issues and methods. The second volume deals with the "monetary side" of the subject. It is concerned with the balance of payments adjustment process under fixed exchange rates, with exchange rate determination under flexible exchange rates, and with the domestic ramifications of these phenomena. Accordingly, it deals mainly with economic issues, although microeconomic methods are frequently utilized, especially in work on expectations, asset markets, and exchange rate behavior."--Publisher's information

IMF Staff Papers

IMF Staff Papers
Author: International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2002-11-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781589061231

This paper reports for uncovered interest parity (UIP) using daily data for 23 developing and developed countries during the crisis-strewn 1990s. UIP is a classic topic of international finance, a critical building block of most theoretical models, and a dismal empirical failure. UIP states that the interest differential is, on average, equal to the ex post exchange rate change. UIP may work differently for countries in crisis, whose exchange and interest rates both display considerably more volatility. This volatility raises the stakes for financial markets and central banks; it also may provide a more statistically powerful test for the UIP hypothesis. Policy-exploitable deviations from UIP are, therefore, a necessary condition for an interest rate defense. There is a considerable amount of heterogeneity in the results, which differ wildly by country.