Arbeitspapier

Optimal contract currencies and exchange rate policy

The paper develops a simple stochastic new open macroeconomic model in which pricesetting firms' choice between producer currency pricing and local currency pricing is endogenous. We show that, in equilibrium, firms will denominate their export price contracts in the currency of the country with the lowest level of monetary variability. A welfare maximising government's choice of exchange rate regime is also analysed, and we find that a fixed exchange rate is preferable if the domestic monetary variability is higher than the foreign one.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Danmarks Nationalbank Working Papers ; No. 3

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
new open-economy macroeconomics
producer currency pricing
local currency pricing
endogenous contract currencies
optimal exchange rate regime
Wechselkurspolitik
Preisrigidität
Offene Volkswirtschaft
Anpassungskosten
Duopol
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Storgaard, Peter Ejler
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Danmarks Nationalbank
(where)
Copenhagen
(when)
2002

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Storgaard, Peter Ejler
  • Danmarks Nationalbank

Time of origin

  • 2002

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