Short-Run Real Exchange Rate Dynamics

Posted: 12 Jan 2001

See all articles by Ana-Maria Fuertes

Ana-Maria Fuertes

Bayes Business School, City, University of London

Jerry Coakley

University of Essex - Essex Business School

Abstract

The short-run dynamics of German mark and US dollar real exchange rates are investigated for a panel of 19 OECD economies in a vector error correction framework for the 1973-96 period. The novel persistence profiles approach of Pesaran and Shin ("Cointegration and Speed of Convergence to Equilibrium", Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 71, (1996), pp. 117-143) indicates that the effect of system-wide shocks declines rapidly initially but decays slowly thereafter. It yields an average of just one year for the half-life of such shocks but some seven years before they fully dissipate. These half-life estimates are just one-quarter of the consensus estimates. Our results are consistent with non-linear adjustment and with monetary factors being the main source of real exchange rate volatility.

Suggested Citation

Fuertes, Ana-Maria and Coakley, Jerry, Short-Run Real Exchange Rate Dynamics. The Manchester School, Vol. 68, Issue 4, June 2000, Cass Business School Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=242841

Ana-Maria Fuertes

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