Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25973 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1928
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We find that productivity gains in tradables cause an appreciation of the real exchange rate via both tradable and nontradable prices in the CEE-5 and have no affect in the Baltic countries, while they lead to a depreciation of the real exchange rate of tradables in OECD economies that overcompensates the appreciation due to nontradable prices. Rising net foreign liabilities lead to a real appreciation in the Baltic countries instead of the expected depreciation found in OECD and CEE-5 countries. These differences are due to the different impact of the fundamentals on the real exchange rate depending on the time horizon studied.
Subjects: 
real exchange rate
equilibrium exchange rate
productivity
tradables
Balassa- Samuelson effect
JEL: 
C15
E31
F31
O11
P17
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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