Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53993 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2011/14
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper revisits the link between exchange rate regimes and trade in the context of Africa's exchange rate arrangements. Applying an augmented gravity model that includes measures of currency unions and pegged regimes, the paper compares Africa's experience with that of the world. Our results suggest that both currency unions and direct pegs promote bilateral trade in Africa vis-à-vis more flexible exchange rate regimes,and that their effect is almost double for the region than that for an average country in the world sample. Further, we find evidence that the effect of conventional pegs is at least as large as that of currency unions in Africa, and that the benefits of fixed exchange rate regimes stem through channels in addition to reduced exchange rate volatility.
Subjects: 
currency unions
fixed exchange rate regimes
Africa
JEL: 
F31
F40
ISBN: 
978-92-9230-377-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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