Is devaluation expansionary or contractionary? Empirical evidence from Fiji

C-Tier
Journal: Applied Economics
Year: 2007
Volume: 39
Issue: 20
Pages: 2589-2598

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 2 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

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Abstract

Devaluation has been traditionally promoted as an effective tool for increasing exports and improving the external position of the devaluing country if a nominal devaluation results in expenditure switching. In this article, our aim is to model the relationship between currency devaluations and output for Fiji. Following the approach in Bahmani et al. (2002), we extend the traditional model by incorporating other monetary and fiscal policy variables. We achieve our goal by using the recently developed bounds testing approach to cointegration and the autoregressive distributed lag model and find that devaluation is expansionary in the case of Fiji.

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RePEc Handle
repec:taf:applec:v:39:y:2007:i:20:p:2589-2598
Journal Field
General
Author Count
2
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2026-01-26