Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/152789 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 355
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The international welfare effects of a country's monetary policy shocks have been controversial in the new open economy macro (i.e., NOEM) literature. While a unilateral monetary expansion increases the production efficiency in each country, it affects the terms of trade in favor of one country against another depending on the currencies of price setting. In this paper, we incorporate multiple stages of production and trade into a standard NEOM model to capture world production interdependence, and show that increased world production interdependence tends to magnify the e±ciency-improvement effect while dampening the terms-of-trade effect. As a consequence, a unilateral monetary expansion can be mutually beneficial regardless of in which currency prices are set. In this sense, international monetary policy transmission may not be a source of potential conflict in a world with production interdependence.
Subjects: 
Local currency pricing
Monopolistic competition
Stages of processing
Welfare
JEL: 
E32
F31
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
998.04 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.