Sources of real exchange rate fluctuations in transition economies: The case of Ploand and Hungary

Arbeitspapier

This paper examines Brada‘s (1998) conjecture about the path of real exchange rates in two successful transition economies, Hungary and Poland. He argues that, as a result of the very diverse fiscal and monetary policies to be found among these economies, real exchange rates in some economies should follow a path that mirrors mainly the effect of real shocks and others a path reflecting the monetary shocks. To test this hypothesis, we use a popular structural VAR model and, assuming long-run neutrality of nominal shocks, we decompose real exchange rate and price movements into those attributable to real and nominal shocks. Using monthly data from 1990 to 1999 for Hungary and Poland, we find that nominal shocks had a major influence in explaining real exchange rate movements in Poland, while real shocks had a larger influence on real exchange rate movements in Hungary.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEI Working Paper ; No. B 14-2000

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft
• Thema: nominal and real exchange rates ; inflation ; transition economies ; structural VARs ; exchange rate regimes ; exchange rate modeling

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Dibooglu, Selahattin ; Kutan, Ali M.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2000

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/39449
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ