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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970782703321

Autore

Oomes Nienke

Titolo

In Search of a Dramatic Equilibrium : : Was the Armenian Dram Overvalued? / / Nienke Oomes, Vahram Stepanyan, Gohar Minasyan, Ara Stepanyan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

9786612842719

9781462352753

1462352758

9781452730905

1452730903

9781451871975

145187197X

9781282842717

1282842714

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (22 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

MinasyanGohar

StepanyanAra

StepanyanVahram

Disciplina

338.28135

Soggetti

Foreign exchange rates - Armenia

Devaluation of currency - Armenia

Currency

Deflation

Exchange rates

Foreign Exchange

Foreign exchange

Industrial productivity

Inflation

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Production

Price Level

Production and Operations Management

Production

Productivity

Purchasing power parity

Real effective exchange rates

Real exchange rates

Armenia, Republic of



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"March 2009".

Nota di bibliografia

Contains bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; Figures; 1. Estimated Real Exchange Rate Misalignment; II. Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) Approach; 2. Armenian Price Level Relative to U.S. Price Level; 3. Relative Price Levels and Relative Incomes; 4. PPP Approach Equilibrium and Atual Real Exchanges; 5. PPP Approach: Real Exchange Rate Misalignment; III. Behavioral Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate (BEER) Approach; A. Productivity measures; B. Other equilibrium exchange rate determinants; C. Results; Tables; 1. BEER Approach: Augmented Dickey-Fuller Test Results; 2. BEER Approach: Estimated Cointegrating Vector

IV. External Sustainability (ES) Approach6. BEER Approach: Equilibrium and Actual REER; 7. BEER Approach: Real Exchange Rate Misalignment; 8. ES Approach: Real Exchange Rate Misalignment; V. Conclusion; 9. Estimated Real Exchange Rate Misalignment; References

Sommario/riassunto

This papers estimates the equilibrium exchange rate for Armenia using three different approaches: the purchasing power parity (PPP) approach, the behavioral equilibrium exchange rate (BEER) approach, and the external sustainability (ES) approach. All three approaches suggest that the dram was overvalued by about 20–30 percent prior to the devaluation of the dram in March 2009.