Do Terms of Trade Drive Real Exchange Rates? Comparing Oil and Commodity Currencies

Virginie Coudert (), Cécile Couharde () and Valérie Mignon ()

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Abstract: This paper investigates whether terms of trade have an impact on real exchange rates for commodity exporters and oil exporters. To this end, we estimate a long term relationship between the real effective exchange rate and economic fundamentals, including the commodity terms of trade. The estimation relies on panel cointegration techniques and covers annual data from 1980 to 2007. Our results show that real exchange rates co-move with commodity prices in the long run and respond to oil price somewhat less than to commodity prices. We also find that some pegged currencies have been driven away from their equilibria by wild fluctuations in the key currencies, on which they are anchored.

Keywords: Commodities; Oil; Terms of trade; Equilibrium real exchange rates; Anchor currencies; Panel cointegration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F31 O13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-12
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