Arbeitspapier

Integration of financial markets and national price levels: the role of exchange rate volatility

How does international financial integration affect national price levels? To analyze this question, this paper formulates a two-country open economy sticky-price model under either segmented or complete asset markets. It is shown that the effect of financial integration, i.e. moving from segmented to complete asset markets, is regime-dependent. Under managed exchange rates, financial integration raises the national price level. Under floating exchange rates, however, financial integration lowers national price levels. Thus, the paper proposes a novel argument to rationalize systematic deviations from PPP. Panel evidence for 54 countries supports the main findings. A 10% larger ratio of foreign assets and liabilities to GDP, our measure of international financial integration, increases the national price level by 0.27 percentage points under fixed and intermediate exchange rate regimes and lowers the price level by 0.3 percentage points under floating exchange rates.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Paper Series 1 ; No. 2008,07

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements
Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Thema
International financial integration
exchange rate regime
national price level
PPP
foreign asset position
Internationaler Finanzmarkt
Marktintegration
Preisniveau
Wechselkurssystem
Kaufkraftparität
Auslandsvermögen
Theorie
Welt

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hoffmann, Mathias
Tillmann, Peter
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsche Bundesbank
(wo)
Frankfurt a. M.
(wann)
2008

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hoffmann, Mathias
  • Tillmann, Peter
  • Deutsche Bundesbank

Entstanden

  • 2008

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