External Stability Under Alternative Nominal Exchange Rate Anchors: An Application to the GCC Countries
January 1, 1997
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Summary
Import and export stability is examined under two alternative nominal exchange rate anchors, the U.S. dollar and the SDR. Stability under the two pegs depends critically on import and export elasticity with respect to exchange rates. The implications of import and export elasticity for an optimal currency basket are also explored. The elasticity estimates for the GCC countries suggest that the SDR peg may not outperform the dollar peg in improving external stability. Nevertheless, switching to some other nominal exchange rate anchor may improve external stability, a possibility that remains to be explored.
Subject: Currencies, Exchange rates, Exports, Foreign exchange, Imports, International trade, Money, Trade balance
Keywords: Currencies, dollar peg, dollar-denominated import, Exchange rates, Exports, Imports, SDR currency, SDR peg, SDR zone, Trade balance, WP
Pages:
36
Volume:
1997
DOI:
Issue:
008
Series:
Working Paper No. 1997/008
Stock No:
WPIEA0081997
ISBN:
9781451927900
ISSN:
1018-5941
Notes
This paper was presented at the Eleventh Annual Congress of the European Economic Association, Istanbul, August 21-24, 1996.
