The unemployment effect of exchange rate volatility in industrial countries

Horst Feldmann

Economics Letters, 2011, vol. 111, issue 3, 268-271

Abstract: Using data on 17 industrial countries from 1982 to 2003 and controlling for a wide array of factors, this paper finds that higher exchange rate volatility increases the unemployment rate. The magnitude of the effect is small. The results are robust to variations in specification.

Keywords: Exchange; rate; volatility; Unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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