Monetary Policy and Dutch Disease: The Case of Price and Wage Rigidity

Constantino Hevia and Juan Pablo Nicolini

No 726, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Abstract: We study a model of a small open economy that specializes in the production of commodities and that exhibits frictions in the setting of both prices and wages. We study the optimal response of monetary and exchange rate policy following a positive (negative) shock to the price of the exportable that generates an appreciation (depreciation) of the local currency. According to the calibrated version of the model, deviations from full price stability can generate welfare gains that are equivalent to almost 0.5% of lifetime consumption, as long as there is a significant degree of rigidity in nominal wages. On the other hand, if the rigidity is concentrated in prices, the welfare gains can be at most 0.1% of lifetime consumption. We also show that a rule - formally defined in the paper - that resembles a \"dirty floating\" regime can approximate the optimal policy remarkably well.

Keywords: Dutch disease; Inflation targeting; Foreign exchange intervention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F31 F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2015-06-08
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