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ACADEMY OF ECONOMIC STUDIES DOCTORAL SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND BANKING. Dissertation Paper. The Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate (An Empirical Analysis on the USD/ROL exchange rate)

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  1. ACADEMY OF ECONOMIC STUDIES DOCTORAL SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND BANKING • Dissertation Paper The Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate (An Empirical Analysis on the USD/ROL exchange rate) Student: Cristina Maria Iacob Supervisor: Professor Moisă Altăr

  2. CONTENTS • Literature review • The concept of Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate (ERER) and its importance • The model • The data • Estimating the ERER and the degree of misalignment • Concluding remarks

  3. LITERATURE REVIEW • The FEER approach • Williamson (1985, 1994): the ERER is calibrated at a • level consistent with both internal and external balance. • The BEER approach • P.Clark and R.MacDonald (1997,1998,2001) • J.Baffes, I.A.Elbadawi, S.A.O’Connell (1997) • T.Feyzioglu (1997) • L.Halpern and C.Wyplosz (1996,1998,2001) • B.Egert (2001), B.Y. Kim and I.Korhonen (2002) • a two-step procedure: a simple behavioral ERER relationship is estimated and then this is used to determine the misalignment.

  4. THE CONCEPT OF ERER • The PPP Theory: the exchange rate should be driven only by the level and movement of the prices in the two countries; • -the wrong rule to follow by transition economies (lack of historical data; non-conventional factors ). • The Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate is the level of the real exchange rate when internal (equilibrium in the non-tradable market) and external (sustainability of long-term capital flows) balances are achieved.

  5. THE IMPORTANCE OF ERER • External competitiveness: • overvalued currency: high export prices, loss of competitiveness; • in transition economies (reduced output and high unemployment) export-led growth argues in favor of slightly undervalued exchange rates. • Joining the EU and adopting the Euro: • ERM2: an undervalued currency is susceptible to experience inflationary pressure in the process of real appreciation (fail to meet the Maastricht convergence criterion on inflation).

  6. THE ROMANIAN ECONOMY • The NBR’s objective: to assure currency stability in order to maintain price stability. • Managed float exchange rate regime. • 1997: foreign exchange market liberalization; the last stage of price liberalization  high jump in inflation and nominal depreciation. • 1999: peak of the due payment of external debt balance of payment crisis (the country didn’t enter payment incapacity). • High liberalization of the capital account.

  7. THE REAL EXCHANGE RATE USD/ROL (1995-2002) • The beginning of transition: real depreciation. • This is followed by real appreciation driven not by increases in productivity, but by a “natural recovery” process. • 1997: nominal depreciation and higher inflation  real appreciation. • 1999: nominal and real depreciation. • 2001: real appreciation followed by nominal appreciation

  8. THE MODEL (S.Edwards (1989) and Montiel (1996)) • A small, open economy based on two sectors. • Maximizing utility households: . • The dynamic budgetary constraint: • The public sector: • Internal balance: • External balance:

  9. Real indeces (CPI deflated), fixed base January 1995=100; • Monthly data • Source: NBR Annual Reports THE DATA • Internal balance: CREDIT (non-governmental), DEP (difference between foreign currency and ROL deposits); • External balance: NFA (net foreign assets to GDP),OPEN (exports plus imports to GDP); • GDP proxied by the index of industrial output

  10. THE GOAL To estimate the equilibrium real exchange rate as: - + +/- + • Cointegration technique (Johansen, Engle-Granger)

  11. DECOMPOSING REAL AND NOMINAL EXCHANGE RATE MOVEMENTS • VAR analysis (Blanchard and Quah decomposition) on the log of the real and nominal exchange rate (I(1)). • The restriction:nominal shocks have no long-run effect on the RER Variance Decomposition • The importance of nominal shocks (due to NBR’s interventions)

  12. ESTIMATING THE ERER • Unit root tests Variable ADF PP RER C I(1) C I(1) NFA TC I(1) TC I(1) OPEN C I(1) C I(1) CREDIT C I(1) C I(1) DEP C I(1) C I(1) • 1% significance level; • the unit root tests are biased towards accepting the null of a unit root in the presence of structural breaks .

  13. ESTIMATING THE ERER • VAR analysis • Variables in levels, 2 lags; • Impulse response functions: + - + + +

  14. ESTIMATING THE ERER • Johansen cointegration test

  15. ESTIMATING THE ERER Johansen cointegrating relation: RER=0.021297+0.538429*OPEN-0.068865*NFA+0.038304*DEP+ (0.07563)(0.01741) (0.04866) +0.298500*CREDIT (0.04610)

  16. ESTIMATING THE ERER Engle-Granger cointegrating relation: RER=0.356169-0.053560*NFA+0.131087*OPEN+0.193242*DEP+ (0.048655) (0.005841) (0.031664) (0.015865) +0.320477*CREDIT (0.022323) The cointegrating relation (stationary residuals:ADF and PP)

  17. ESTIMATING THE ERER The estimated ERER Fitted ERER on the Johansen equilibrium relationship Fitted ERER on the Engle-Granger equilibrium relationship • The estimated ERER will allow us to determine the misalignment of the exchange rate.

  18. SHORT-RUN DYNAMICS • VEC representation: • D(RER) = - 0.32354355*( RER(-1) - 0.5384287381*OPEN(-1) + +0.06886480321*NFA(-1) - 0.03830424481*DEP(-1) - 0.2985004165*CREDIT(-1) - 0.02129682639 ) - 0.06856552318*D(RER(-1)) - 0.107401684*D(OPEN(-1)) - 0.004766388211*D(NFA(-1)) + 0.06294160197*D(DEP(-1)) + +0.09737686503*D(CREDIT(-1)) + 0.0008867915601 • The time required to dissipate x% of a shock in the RER: α = the absolute value of the speed of adjustment the time it takes for the RER to come to equilibrium after a 1% shock , is 0.025755 years or 9.272 days.

  19. WEAK-EXOGENEITY TESTS • The NFA and the proxi for the demand of foreign currency (DEP) are weakly exogenous. • OPEN and CREDIT accomodate to RER disequilibrium.

  20. STABILITY TESTS The CUSUM test on the VEC representation of the Johansen equilibrium relationship The CUSUm test on the Engle-Granger estimated equilibrium relationship • Only the Johansen estimated equilibrium relationship has stable coefficients over the whole sample. • The second relation is not stable.

  21. EXCHANGE RATE ACTUAL MISALIGNMENT Model 1: On average, the national currency was undervalued Model 2: On average, the national currency was overvalued

  22. EXCHANGE RATE TOTAL MISALIGNMENT Estimated ERER based on the long-run value of the fundamentals vs. the actual RER Total misalignment for Johansen equilibrium relation Total misalignment for Engle-Granger equilibrium relation • Total misalignment includes the departure from equilibrium of the fundamentals, too. • Model 1undervaluation of the national currency. • Model 2overvaluation of the national currency.

  23. THE MODEL’S FORECAST ABILITY • The VEC representation of the first model the one step ahead forecast of the real exchange rate: • The model yields a reasonable approximation of the real exchange rate for the period 1995:01-2002:12 • It reveals an overvaluation of the national currency during the second half of 2002

  24. CONCLUSIONS • Nominal factors (monetary policy) play an important role in exchange rate determination. • The undervaluation of the national currency improves the external competitiveness and favorizes export-led growth. • Further analysis should determine the EUR/ROL ERER. • The managed float regime is more suitable than a fixed regime. • The results are determined by the choice of fundamentals.

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