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Targeting the Real Exchange Rate: Theory and Evidence

By Carlos A. Végh Gramont, Guillermo Calvo, Carmen Reinhart

February 1, 1994

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Carlos A. Végh Gramont, Guillermo Calvo, and Carmen Reinhart. Targeting the Real Exchange Rate: Theory and Evidence, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1994) accessed October 10, 2024
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Summary

This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of policies aimed at setting a more depreciated level of the real exchange rate. An intertemporal optimizing model suggests that, in the absence of changes in fiscal policy, a more depreciated level of the real exchange can only be attained temporarily. This can be achieved by means of higher inflation and/or higher real interest rates, depending on the degree of capital mobility. Evidence for Brazil, Chile, and Colombia supports the model’s prediction that undervalued real exchange rates are associated with higher inflation.

Subject: Consumption, Exchange rates, Financial services, Foreign exchange, Inflation, National accounts, Prices, Real exchange rates, Real interest rates

Keywords: Capital mobility, Consumption, Depreciated exchange rate level, Exchange rates, Inflation, Nominal exchange rate, Nominal interest rate, Present discounted value, Rate of inflation, Real exchange rates, Real interest rate, Real interest rates, Terms of trade, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    50

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1994/022

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0221994

  • ISBN:

    9781451921212

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941