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Is the Exchange Rate a Shock Absorber? the Case of Sweden

By Alun H. Thomas

December 1, 1997

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Alun H. Thomas Is the Exchange Rate a Shock Absorber? the Case of Sweden, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

This paper uses a structural vector autoregression representation of the Mundell-Flemming model to analyze the determinants of movements in Sweden’s real exchange rate. It finds that, while (supply and demand) shocks account for over 60 percent of the forecast error variance, comparable to several Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) countries, demand shocks account for a higher fraction of these real shocks in Sweden than in those core countries. If real demand shocks result from controllable macroeconomic policies, the cost of relinquishing the exchange rate is no higher, and may be lower, for Sweden than for most core EMU countries.

Subject: Economic theory, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Government consumption, National accounts, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates, Supply shocks

Keywords: Core EMU country, Demand shock, Exchange rate, Exchange rates, Forecast error variance decomposition, Government consumption, Nominal shock, Phillips-perron test statistics, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates, Single currency, Supply shock, Supply shocks, Sweden demand shocks, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    22

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1997/176

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1761997

  • ISBN:

    9781451975499

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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