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Local Currency Pricing, Foreign Monetary Shocks and Exchange Rate Policy

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  • Ozge Senay
  • Alan Sutherland

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The implications of local currency pricing (LCP) for monetary regime choice are analysed for a country facing foreign monetary shocks. In this analysis expenditure switching is potentially welfare reducing. This contrasts with the existing LCP literature, which focuses on productivity shocks and thus analyses a world where expenditure switching is welfare enhancing. This paper shows that, when home and foreign pro?ducers follow LCP, expenditure switching is absent and a floating rate is preferred by the home country. But when only home producers follow LCP, expenditure switching is present and a fixed rate can be welfare enhancing for the home country.

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Paper provided by Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis in its series CDMA Working Paper Series with number 1005.

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Handle: RePEc:san:cdmawp:1005

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Keywords: Monetary Policy; Foreign Monetary Shocks; Expenditure Switching; Exchange Rates; Local Currency Pricing; Reference Currency.;

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