Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Exchange Rate Volatility, and ExchangeRate Disconnect

Michael B. Devereux () and Charles Engel ()

DNB Staff Reports (discontinued) from Netherlands Central Bank

Abstract: This paper explores the hypothesis that high volatility of real and nominal exchange rates may be due to the fact that local currency pricing eliminates the pass-through from changes in exchange rates to consumer prices. Exchange rates may be highly volatile because in a sense they have little effect on macroeconomic variables. The paper shows the ingredients necessary to construct such an explanation for exchange rate volatility. In addition to the presence of local currency pricing, we need a) incomplete international financial markets, b) a structure of international pricing and product distribution such that wealth effects of exchange rate changes are minimized, and c) stochastic deviations from uncovered interest rate parity. Together, it is shown that these elements can produce exchange rate volatility that is much higher than shocks to economic fundamentals, and `disconnected' from the rest of the economy in the sense that the volatility of all other macroeconomic aggregates are of the same order as that of fundamentals.

Keywords: exchange rate pass-through; exchange rate volatility; exchange rate disconnect; local currency pricing; noise traders (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F3 F4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge, nep-fin, nep-fmk, nep-ifn and nep-rmg
Date: 2003
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Journal Article: Exchange rate pass-through, exchange rate volatility, and exchange rate disconnect (2002)
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