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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814668903321

Autore

Mendoza Enrique

Titolo

Real Exchange Rate Volatility and the Price of Nontradables in Sudden-Stop-Prone Economies / / Enrique Mendoza

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-8714-4

1-4527-5216-8

1-282-44833-1

1-4519-0883-0

9786613821522

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (34 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

Foreign exchange rates - Mexico - Econometric models

Prices - Mexico

Foreign exchange rates - Developing countries - Econometric models

Foreign Exchange

Macroeconomics

Money and Monetary Policy

Macroeconomics: Consumption

Saving

Wealth

Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General

Currency

Foreign exchange

Monetary economics

Real exchange rates

Consumption

Managed exchange rates

Exchange rate arrangements

Credit

Economics

Mexico

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"March 2006".

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. VARIANCE ANALYSIS OF THE PESO-DOLLAR REAL EXCHANGE RATE""; ""III. SUDDEN STOPS AND NONTRADABLES-DRIVEN REAL EXCHANGE RATE VOLATILITY""; ""IV. CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""

Sommario/riassunto

This paper shows that the dominant view that the high variability of real exchange rates is due to movements in exchange rate-adjusted prices of tradable goods does not hold for Mexican data for periods with a managed exchange rate. The relative price of nontradables accounts for up to 70 percent of real exchange rate variability during these periods. The paper also proposes a model in which this fact, and the sudden stops that accompanied the collapse of Mexico's managed exchange rates, could result from a Fisherian debt-deflation mechanism operating via nontradables prices in economies with dollarized liabilities.