Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39449 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
ZEI Working Paper No. B 14-2000
Publisher: 
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines Brada‘s (1998) conjecture about the path of real exchange rates in two successful transition economies, Hungary and Poland. He argues that, as a result of the very diverse fiscal and monetary policies to be found among these economies, real exchange rates in some economies should follow a path that mirrors mainly the effect of real shocks and others a path reflecting the monetary shocks. To test this hypothesis, we use a popular structural VAR model and, assuming long-run neutrality of nominal shocks, we decompose real exchange rate and price movements into those attributable to real and nominal shocks. Using monthly data from 1990 to 1999 for Hungary and Poland, we find that nominal shocks had a major influence in explaining real exchange rate movements in Poland, while real shocks had a larger influence on real exchange rate movements in Hungary.
Subjects: 
nominal and real exchange rates
inflation
transition economies
structural VARs
exchange rate regimes
exchange rate modeling
JEL: 
C5
F3
P5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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