Output structure, debt denomination, and exchange rate regimes

dc.contributor.advisorReinhart, Carmenen_US
dc.contributor.authorMagud, Nicolas Ernestoen_US
dc.contributor.departmentEconomicsen_US
dc.date.accessioned2004-05-31T20:20:49Z
dc.date.available2004-05-31T20:20:49Z
dc.date.issued2004-04-20en_US
dc.description.abstractThe dissertation analyzes the choice of an exchange rate regime for a small open economy indebted in foreign currency, incorporating the financial accelerator. Conventional wisdom suggests that floating regimes should insulate the economy from real shocks. I show that this result depends on the degrees of openness of the economy and foreign currency indebtedness and, in fact, does not hold for relatively closed economies. The transmission mechanism relies on nonlinearities in the impact of unanticipated real price changes on the external finance premium, similar to Fisher (1933). To test this, a VAR with exogenous terms of trade shocks is performed: a 32 country sample for the period 1980-2001 is split according to the degree of openness of the economy. The results confirm the theoretical conclusions.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/244
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEconomics, Theoryen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEconomics, Financeen_US
dc.titleOutput structure, debt denomination, and exchange rate regimesen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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