The Impact of Monetary Policyon the Bilateral Exchange Rate: Chile Versus the United States

April 1, 2003

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Jeromin Zettelmeyer. The Impact of Monetary Policyon the Bilateral Exchange Rate: Chile Versus the United States, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2003) accessed December 25, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines the reaction of the bilateral Ch$/US$ exchange rate to monetary policy actions in Chile and the United States. The approach is to regress the change in the exchange rate following a policy announcement on changes in market interest rates in response to the same announcement. U.S. monetary policy actions that raise the three-month treasury bill rate by 1 percentage point lead to depreciations of the Chilean peso by about 1.5 to 2 percent. The exchange rate also reacts to monetary policy actions in Chile, but the response appears to be smaller, and cannot be estimated with much precision on the available sample.

Subject: Central bank policy rate, Deposit rates, Exchange rate policy, Exchange rates, Financial services, Foreign exchange, Market interest rates

Keywords: Central bank policy rate, Deposit rates, Dollar rate, Exchange rate, Exchange rate policy, Exchange Rates, Interest rate, Interest rate differential, Interest rate measure, Interest Rates, Market interest rates, Market rate, Measures to the monetary policy action, Monetary policy, Monetary policy action, Monetary policy in Chile, Monetary policy rate, Rate, Treasury bill rate, U.S. dollar, United States interest rate change, US$ exchange rate, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

23
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2003/071
Stock No:

WPIEA0712003
ISBN:

9781451849264
ISSN:

1018-5941

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