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Consumption Smoothing and Exchange Rate Volatility

By Bart Turtelboom

November 1, 1995

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Bart Turtelboom. Consumption Smoothing and Exchange Rate Volatility, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1995) accessed September 19, 2024
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Summary

This paper analyzes exchange rate behavior in a model where consumers trade goods to diversify shocks to their income. A model with traded and nontraded goods is simulated in a multilateral context based upon historical output correlations for the period 1970–92. Simulation results indicate that the observed volatility of multilateral real exchange rates for the United States, Germany and Japan is not inconsistent with exchange rate volatility implied by consumption-smoothing behavior.

Subject: Consumption, External position, Foreign assets, Foreign exchange, International trade, National accounts, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates, Trade balance

Keywords: Consumption, Consumption Smoothing, Exchange rate, Exchange rate volatility, Foreign assets, Nontradables price, Price of nontradables, Real effective exchange rates, Real exchange rates, Simulation result, Trade balance, Trade balance surplus, United States production, Utility function, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    56

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1995/108

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA1081995

  • ISBN:

    9781451853049

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941