Real Exchange Rate Misalignment: A Panel Co-Integration and Common Factor Analysis

Etienne Yehoue and Gilles Dufrénot (gilles.dufrenot@sciencespo-aix.fr)

No 2005/164, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: WP; terms of trade; time series; Real exchange rate misalignment; panel co-integration; common factor; developing countries; confidence interval; monetary policy; OLS estimator; equilibrium exchange rate; estimation result; critical value; currency appreciation; Real exchange rates; Real effective exchange rates; Exchange rates; Currencies; Technology transfer; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39
Date: 2005-08-01
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