Exchange Rate Misalignment In Developing Countries

Author : Sebastian Edwards
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exchange Rate Misalignment in Developing Countries written by Sebastian Edwards and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article analyzes the theory of equilibrium real exchange rates and defines misalignment as a deviation of the real exchange rate (RER) from its equilibrium level. The role of macroeconomic policies is then analyzed under three alternative nominal exchange rate regimes: predetermined nominal exchange rates; floating nominal rates; and dual or black market nominal exchange rates. This discussion points out how inconsistent macroeconomic policies often lead to real exchange rate misalignment. Corrective measures, including nominal devaluation and several alternative approaches, are then evaluated.

Author : Lawrence E. Hinkle
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 019521126X
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exchange Rate Misalignment written by Lawrence E. Hinkle and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study cautiously identifies exchange rate misalignment as an important element in most of the exchange rate crises that plagued the developing world during the last decade. Given that the increasing integration of world capital markets, has escalated the costs of such crises, a broad consensus emerged in recent years, that the overriding objective of exchange rate policy in developing countries, should be to avoid episodes of prolonged, and substantial misalignment, i.e., situations in which the actual real exchange rate differs significantly from its long-run equilibrium value. It was the Bank's involvement in one such misalignment episode, that eventually led to this book. Following an overview on the concepts and measurement of exchange rate misalignment, its impact on the purchasing power parity, and the relationship between the external real exchange rate (RER), and the two-good internal RER for tradables non-tradables, the study presents methodologies - empirical applications - for estimating the RER equilibrium. The study reaches an optimistic conclusion - that enough is known to identify cases of misalignment, and be able to sound clear warning signals. The implication for exchange rate policy is that ignorance about the empirical value of the equilibrium exchange rate, cannot be used to clinch arguments for extreme exchange arrangements, such as clean floats, currency boards, and "dollarization."

Author : Mr.Peter Montiel
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451960352
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is the Parallel Market Premium a Reliable Indicator of Real Exchange Rate Misalignment in Developing Countries written by Mr.Peter Montiel and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1993-08-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often argued that the parallel market premium is a useful indicator of real exchange rate misalignment in developing countries. The empirical evidence does not, however, suggest the existence of a robust correlation between these two endogenous variables that is independent of the nature of economic shocks and various structural relationships in the economy. This paper presents an analytical investigation of the reliability of the parallel market premium as an indicator of real exchange rate misalignment in the context of a fully optimizing model of a developing country. The analysis suggests that one should exercise caution in drawing inferences about the sign and magnitude of real exchange rate misalignment from the parallel market premium.

Author : Gae-Iyong Choi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Exchange Rate Misalignment in Developing Countries Under the Floating Exchange Rate Regime written by Gae-Iyong Choi and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wishnu Mahraddika
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Real Exchange Rate Misalignment in Developing Countries written by Wishnu Mahraddika and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : World Bank. Country Policy Department
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Exchange Rate Misalignment in Developing Countries written by World Bank. Country Policy Department and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carlos Goncalves
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 148433602X
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exchange Rate Misalignment and Growth: A Myth? written by Carlos Goncalves and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of real exchange rate movements on GDP growth is a hotly debated issue both in policy and academic circles. In this paper, we provide evidence suggesting that the association between exchange rate misalignment and growth for a broad panel of countries is very weak. Controlling for country fixed effects, time effects and initial GDP, a more depreciated currency is associated with higher growth if one does not exclude outliers. However, this positive association always vanishes after controling for the savings rate. Importantly, this applies for both a large panel of countries and for the emerging economies subsample.

Author : Sebastian Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Exchange Rates, Devaluation, and Adjustment written by Sebastian Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real Exchange Rates, Devaluation, and Adjustment provides a unified theoretical and empirical investigation of exchange rate policy and performance in scores of developing countries. It develops a theory of equilibrium and disequilibrium real exchange rates, takes up the question of why devaluations are the most controversial policy measures in poorer nations, and discusses what determines their success or failure. In a lucid fashion, Edwards organizes vast amounts of data on exchange rates - both real and nominal - and discusses their effect on net trade balances, net asset positions, output growth, real wages, and rates of price inflation, analyzed both in time series and through cross country comparisons. Edwards's investigation singles out 39 major devaluation episodes for before and after comparative analyses while simultaneously isolating the separate effects of other important explanatory variables, such as bank credit expansion and changes in the terms of trade. The first part of the book focuses on theoretical models of devaluation and real exchange rate behavior in less developed countries. Special attention is paid to intertemporal channels in the transmission of disturbances. The second part uses a large cross country data set to analyze the way the real exchange rate has behaved in these nations. The data are also used to test the implications of several theories of real exchange rate determination. The third part analyzes actual devaluation experiences between 1962 and 1982. These chapters examine the events leading to a balance of payments crisis and to a devaluation, exploring the relation between macroeconomic disequilibrium, and the imposition of trade and exchange controls. They also investigate the effect of nominal devaluation on key variables such as the balance of payments, the current account, the real exchange rate, real output real wages, and income distribution.

Author : Howard J. Shatz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exchange Rate Overvaluation and Trade Protection written by Howard J. Shatz and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lessons from world experience about the consequences of exchange rate overvaluation (the frequent cause of trade crises), the consequences of trying to defend an overvalued exchange rate, and the most appropriate policies for resolving an overvaluation"--Cover.

Author : Etienne B. Yehoue
Publisher : INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
ISBN 13 : 9781451861839
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real Exchange Rate Misalignment: A Panel Co-Integration and Common Factor Analysis written by Etienne B. Yehoue and published by INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We combine some newly developed panel co-integration techniques and common factor analysis to analyze the behavior of the real exchange rate (RER) in a sample of 64 developing countries. We study the dynamic of the RER with its economic fundamentals: productivity, the terms of trade, openness, and government spending. We derive a number of common factors that explain the dynamic of the RER in our sample. We find that while some fundamentals such as productivity, terms of trade, and openness are strongly related to these common factors in low-income countries, no such link is found for the middle-income countries. We also derive the misalignment indices, which seem to reproduce recent episodes of overvaluation and undervaluation in a number of countries.