Commodity Currencies and Empirical Exchange Rate Puzzles
Commodity Currencies and Empirical Exchange Rate Puzzles
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Author(s): Rogoff, Kenneth
ISBN No.: 9781451844535
Pages: 46
Year: 200202
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 28.00
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Status: Available

This paper re-examines empirical exchange rate puzzles by focusing on three OECD economies (Australia, Canada, and New Zealand) where primary commodities constitute a significant share of their exports. For Australia and New Zealand especially, we find that the U.S. dollar price of their commodity exports (generally exogenous to these small economies) —has a strong and stable influence on their floating real rates, with the quantitative magnitude of the effects consistent with predictions of standard theoretical models. However, after controlling for commodity price shocks, there is still a PPP puzzle in the residual. Nevertheless, the results here are relevant to many developing country commodity exporters, as they liberalize their capital markets and move towards floating exchange rates.


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