A re-examination of the impacts of macroeconomic and financial shocks on real exchange rate fluctuation: evidence from G7 and Asian countries

C-Tier
Journal: Applied Economics
Year: 2020
Volume: 52
Issue: 50
Pages: 5491-5515

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1.005 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

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Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the sources of real exchange rate fluctuation by utilizing sign restrictions in structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) method. Under an agnostic identification scheme, the empirical results show that the delayed overshooting puzzle still exists in response to monetary shock even if price puzzle is ruled out by construction. In contrast, all countries experience a significant initial real depreciation, and then gradually appreciate in response to currency risk premium (CRP) shock. This finding is consistent with Dornbusch’s overshooting model. In addition, I examine the importance of investors’ expectations in determining the short-term variations in the real exchange rate. The results indicate that the CRP and expectation shocks obviously outperformed the demand, supply and monetary shocks in terms of explaining the real exchange rate fluctuation.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:taf:applec:v:52:y:2020:i:50:p:5491-5515
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-29