Real Exchange Rate Volatility and the Price of Nontradables in Sudden-Stop-Prone Economies

March 1, 2006

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Enrique G. Mendoza Real Exchange Rate Volatility and the Price of Nontradables in Sudden-Stop-Prone Economies, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2006) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper shows that the dominant view that the high variability of real exchange rates is due to movements in exchange rate-adjusted prices of tradable goods does not hold for Mexican data for periods with a managed exchange rate. The relative price of nontradables accounts for up to 70 percent of real exchange rate variability during these periods. The paper also proposes a model in which this fact, and the sudden stops that accompanied the collapse of Mexico's managed exchange rates, could result from a Fisherian debt-deflation mechanism operating via nontradables prices in economies with dollarized liabilities.

Subject: Consumption, Credit, Exchange rate arrangements, Managed exchange rates, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Debt ceiling, Equilibrium price, Nominal exchange rate, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

34
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Working Paper No. 2006/088
Stock No:

WPIEA2006088
ISBN:

9781451863482
ISSN:

1018-5941

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