scholarly journals The Effect of Real Effective Exchange Rate Changes on China’s Import Trade Structure

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Grant G. L. Yang ◽  
Amy Li

The real effective exchange rate (REER) has a double effect on the value of imports. The appreciation of the real effective exchange rate directly reduces the price of imports and expands the quantity of imports, but the increase in the quantity of imports will stimulate the rise of import prices and indirectly restrain the quantity of imports. Using ADF unit root test, cointegration analysis and Granger’s causality test, this paper empirically studies the relationship between the real effective exchange rate of RMB and the consumption trade imports, total trade imports and import trade structure from 1997 to 2019. The conclusion shows that the appreciation of the real effective exchange rate of RMB will reduce the total trade imports and increase the proportion of consumption trade imports, but the effect of that on consumption trade imports is not clear. Results of this study provide evidence that the price effect of RMB’s real effective exchange rate is greater than the income effect of GDP growth. The price elasticity is 0.96 times the income elasticity for consumption trade imports, 2.45 for total trade imports, and 15.24 times for import trade structure.

Author(s):  
Turgut Orman ◽  
İlkay Dellal

This study aims to reveal the impact of exchange rate volatility on agricultural exports of Turkey by using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model. While quarterly time series data covering period of 2001: Q1 to 2018: Q4 were used to carry out analyses, Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity (1.1) is used to acquire exchange rate volatility series. The research findings showed that agricultural export is cointegrated with exchange rate volatility, producer price index and real effective exchange rate. Furthermore, our findings indicate that increases in real effective exchange rate have a statistically significant positive influence on the export volume whereas exchange rate volatility has negative impact on it.


2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Abu Bakarr TARAWALIE

This paper estimates the equilibrium real effective exchange rate and determine the level of exchange rate misalignment in Sierra Leone, for the period 1980 to 2018. The paper utilizes the behavioral equilibrium exchange rate methodology within the Johansen maximum likelihood framework to estimate the long run equilibrium real effective exchange rate. The unit root test result shows that all the variables are integrated of order one, whilst the cointegration test establishes the existence of one cointegrating vector as evidenced by both the Trace and Maximum Eigen Statistics. The normalized long run results reveal that openness, government expenditure and money supply were the most significant determinants of the real effective exchange rate in the long run. Furthermore, the findings reveal that the real effective exchange rate experienced sustained deviation from the long run equilibrium real effective exchange rate during the study period, with episodes of overvaluation and undervaluation. Specifically, the real effective exchange rate was overvalued by 3.69 percent during the period between 1980-1985; undervalued by 1.8 percent between 1986-1997, and overvalued by 0.9 percent between 1998-2004, Thus, the paper reveals episodes of misalignment of the real effective exchange rate. Based on these findings, the study recommends that, the monetary authorities should ensure stability of the exchange rate and maintain price stability, through sterilization of capital flows as well as contain money growth within the statutory limit.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Roberto Meurer

Foreign portfolio investment (FPI) flows have grown substantially in recent decades, following changes in the international financial system. In Brazil, FPI represented 66% of foreign direct investment between 1995 and 2009, which makes it meaningful to analyze these flows. In this paper, the relationships between FPI flows to Brazil, GDP, investment, and financial variables from 1995 to 2009 are analyzed, employing quarterly data and applying descriptive statistics, correlation coefficients, and Granger causality tests. Results show a positive relationship between flows, GDP, and investment. Relationships between flows and financial variables show a strong relationship between FPI and the real effective exchange rate, which could be one of the channels through which the flows are related to real variables by means of changes in relative domestic and foreign production costs. Expectations about future behavior of the economy seem to be an important explanation for the relationship between flows and the real variables. Because FPI is volatile and this volatility relates to real variables through the real effective exchange rate and the interest rate, there is a case to be made for the implementation of capital controls.


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