Exchange rate movements and the Australian economy

Josef Manalo, Dilhan Perera and Daniel Rees

Economic Modelling, 2015, vol. 47, issue C, 53-62

Abstract: We use a structural vector autoregression model to characterise the aggregate and industry effects of exchange rate movements on the Australian economy. We find that a temporary 10% appreciation of the real exchange rate that is unrelated to commodity prices or interest rate differentials lowers the level of real GDP over the subsequent one-to-two years by 0.3% and year-ended inflation by 0.3 percentage points. The mining, manufacturing, personal services, construction and business services industries are the most exchange rate sensitive sectors of the economy. In the context of the boom in Australia's terms of trade over the past decade, we use our model to explore how the Australian economy might have evolved under alternative scenarios. These suggest that exchange rate movements over the past decade have had a stabilising effect on the domestic economy and can largely be explained by economic fundamentals.

Keywords: Structural VAR; Exchange rate; Small open economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2015.02.013

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