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Bivariate Assessments of Real Exchange Rates Using PPP Data »
Article
Source: Bivariate Assessments of Real Exchange Rates Using PPP Data
Volume/Issue: 2008/153
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Juan Zalduendo
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 June 2008
ISBN: 9781451870114
Keywords: Real exchange rate, exchange rate, real exchange rates
This paper focuses on assessments of real exchange rates using PPP data and examines their limitations when these are based exclusively on bivariate estimations. It begins by presenting an analytical framework of t...

7 Trade Elasticities and the Exchange Rate »
Chapter
Source: External Performance in Low-Income Countries
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Alessandro Prati , Luca Ricci , Lone Engbo Christiansen , Stephen Tokarick , and Thierry Tressel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 March 2011
ISBN: 9781616350536
Keywords: External sector, Low-income developing countries, Real effective exchange rates, exchange rate, current account, real exchange rate, foreign assets, net foreign assets
Chapters 1 and 2 of this paper discussed the macrobalance approach, which is one method a researcher can use to determine the extent to which a country’s current account balance deviates from it...

6 Import and Export Elasticities »
Chapter
Source: External Performance in Low-Income Countries
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Alessandro Prati , Luca Ricci , Lone Engbo Christiansen , Stephen Tokarick , and Thierry Tressel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 March 2011
ISBN: 9781616350536
Keywords: External sector, Low-income developing countries, Real effective exchange rates, exchange rate, current account, real exchange rate, foreign assets, net foreign assets
This chapter sets out the details of a methodology that can be used to calculate export supply and import demand elasticities without using econometrics. There is a long tradition in estimating trade elastic...