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US shocks and global exchange rate configurations

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Marcel Fratzscher

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"Many academics and observers emphasize that a sharp US dollar depreciation is inevitable for returning the burgeoning US current account deficit to more sustainable levels. How may such a US dollar adjustment occur, and what may it imply for global exchange rate configurations? The paper focuses on the role of US-specific economic shocks in the adjustment process, and finds that such US shocks have historically exerted a remarkably heterogeneous effect across currencies. It shows that this heterogeneity is not only due to policy choices of inflexible exchange rate regimes or to monetary policy, but to an important extent is explained by market forces, in particular the degree of financial integration - foremost in portfolio investment - though not by trade. This helps explain why it has been in particular the euro, and its predecessor currencies, as well as other European currencies that have contributed the bulk to the adjustment of the US dollar effective exchange rate over the past 25 years, while other flexible currencies have been much less responsive to US shocks." Copyright (c) CEPR, CES, MSH, 2008.

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Article provided by CEPR, CES, MSH in its journal Economic Policy.

Volume (Year): 23 (2008)
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Pages: 363-409
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