Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/50630 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
School of Economics Discussion Papers No. 10,11
Publisher: 
University of Kent, School of Economics, Canterbury
Abstract: 
Empirical evidence suggests that real exchange rates (RER) behave differently in developed and developing countries. We develop an overlapping generations two-sector exogenous growth model in which RER determination may depend on the country's capacity to borrow from international capital markets. The country faces a constraint on capital in ows. With high domestic savings, the RER only depends on productivity spread between sectors (Balassa-Samuelson effect). If the constraint is too tight and/or domestic savings too low, the RER depends on both net foreign assets (transfer effect) and productivity. We then analyze the empirical implications of the model and find that, in accordance with the theory, the RER is mainly driven by productivity and net foreign assets in constrained countries and by productivity in unconstrained countries.
Subjects: 
real exchange rate
capital in ows constraint
overlapping generations
JEL: 
E39
F32
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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