What Do We Really Know About Real Exchange Rates?

Ronald Mac Donald (r.r.macdonald@strath.ac.uk)
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Ronald Mac Donald: University of Strathclyde, Department of Economics, http://www.economics.strath.ac.uk

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Abstract: This paper seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of the recent literature on the economics of real exchange rates. In particular, the paper attempts to provide answers to the following questions: to what extent are real exchange rates mean reverting and how may the degree of observed mean reversion be explained?; do real exchange rates have a business cycle component and, in particular, are they related to real interest differentials?; how important are real, relative to nominal shocks, in driving real exchange rates?; is the systematic component of the real exchange rate related to factors such as productivity, net foreign asset accumulation, national savings imbalances and terms of trade effects?

Keywords: Real Exchange Rates; Mean Reversion. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E30 F31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57
Date: 1998-06-20
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