Does Exchange Rate Variability Matter for Welfare? A Quantitative Investigation of Stabilization Policies

Paul Bergin, Hyung-Cheol Shin and Ivan Tchakarov
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Ivan Tchakarov: Department of Economics, University of California Davis

No 265, Working Papers from University of California, Davis, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper evaluates quantitatively the potential welfare gains from monetary policy and fixedexchange rate rules in a two-country sticky-price model. The first finding is that the gains fromstabilization tend to be small in the types of economic environments emphasized in recenttheoretical literature. The analysis goes on to identify two types of economies in which thewelfare implications of risk are larger: where agents exhibit habits, and where international assetmarkets exhibit asymmetry in the form of ?original sin.? In the habits case, monetary policyaimed solely at inflation stabilization is optimal. But in the original sin case there are potentiallylarge welfare gains from also eliminating exchange rate volatility.

Keywords: exchange rate risk; second order approximation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28
Date: 2005-06-29
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