The World Economy

Ray Barrell, Nigel Pain and Julian Morgan

National Institute Economic Review, 1995, vol. 152, 29-59

Abstract: The pattern of real exchange rates has changed significantly since February. Our currency forecasts at that time were in line with the implied forward rates in financial markets, with the yen projected to appreciate slowly against the dollar, rising from 100 to the dollar in the first quarter of 1995 to around 90 to the dollar in 1997. Within Europe, we projected a further small appreciation of the D-mark and a continuing depreciation of the lira and the peseta. Overall, we expected ‘real exchange rates to stay approximately stable’. In the event, the yen rose strongly in March and April to around 80 to the dollar, while the D-mark rose from around 1.50 to 1.38 to the dollar. At the same time, the lira/D-mark exchange rate fell by over 10 per cent and the Exchange Rate Mechanism was placed under renewed strain, with both the peseta and the escudo being devalued. As a result, the Japanese and US real effective exchange rates are respectively 15 per cent higher and 7 per cent lower than we had previously expected. These developments also had a wider impact on financial markets. The discount rate was cut in Japan and Germany and long-term rates rose in Italy and Spain. Equity prices fell sharply in those countries with appreciating currencies and jumped up in most of the countries whose exchange rate has depreciated.

Date: 1995
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