Trade Costs and Real Exchange Rate Volatility: The Role of Ricardian Comparative Advantage

January 1, 2005

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Trade Costs and Real Exchange Rate Volatility: The Role of Ricardian Comparative Advantage, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed December 24, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines the impact of trade costs on real exchange rate volatility. We incorporate a multi-country Ricardian model of trade, based on the work of Eaton and Kortum (2002), into a macroeconomic model to show how bilateral real exchange rate volatility depends on relative technological differences and trade costs. These differences highlight a new channel, in which the similarity of a pair of countries' set of suppliers of traded goods affects bilateral exchange rate volatility. We then test the importance of this channel using a large panel of cross-country data over 1970-97, and find strong evidence supporting the channel.

Subject: Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, Plurilateral trade, Price indexes, Real exchange rates

Keywords: Exchange rate, Price index, Real GDP, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

43
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2005/005
Stock No:

WPIEA2005005
ISBN:

9781451860245
ISSN:

1018-5941

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