Oil Price Shocks and Exchange Rate Management: The Implications of Consumer Durables for the Small Open Economy

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2008-04-10
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Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research
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This paper examines exchange rate management issues when a small open economy is hit by an exogenous oil price shock. In this model consumer durables play an important role in the demand for oil and oil based products as opposed to the traditional role of oil as a factor of production. When prices are sticky, oil price shocks lead to reduced output, lower inflation, and real exchange rate deprecation. These recessionary effects occur whether or not oil is in the production function because of the close relationship between consumer durables and oil. Tentative results suggest that flexible exchange rates produce smaller output losses and less volatile inflation in the non-tradables sector than fixed exchange rates but at the cost of front-loading real exchange rate movements.
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This paper has been revised. The revised version is at http://hdl.handle.net/2022/3119
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CAEPR, Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, oil, durables, exchange rates
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