Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/29795 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 943
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper deals with the impact of the $/¿ exchange rate on German exports in the period from 1995Q1 to 2008Q4. Our main aim is to identify pain thresholds for German exporters. We rely on a non-linear model according to which suddenly strong spurts of exports occur when changes of the EXR go beyond a kind of play area (analogous to a mechanical play). We implement an algorithm describing play-hysteresis into a regression framework. A unique pain threshold of the $/¿ exchange rate does not exist, since the borders of the play area and, thus, also the pain threshold (as the upper border) depend on the historical path of the whole process. We come up with an estimate of a play area width of 24 US dollar cent per euro. At the end of our estimation period, the previous exchange rate movements had shifted the upper bound of the play area to about 1.55 US dollar per euro. In our interpretation, this is the current pain threshold, where a strong spurt reaction of exports to a further appreciation of the euro is expected to start.
Subjects: 
Exchange rate movements
play hysteresis
modelling techniques
switching regression
export demand
JEL: 
C51
C63
E24
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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