Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/57610 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
WTO Staff Working Paper No. ERSD-2011-17
Publisher: 
World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva
Abstract: 
This paper surveys a wide body of economic literature on the relationship between currencies and trade. Specifically, two main issues are investigated: the impact on international trade of exchange rate volatility and of currency misalignments. On average, exchange rate volatility has a negative (even if not large) impact on trade flows. The extent of this effect depends on a number of factors, including the existence of hedging instruments, the structure of production (e.g. the prevalence of small firms), and the degree of economic integration across countries. Exchange rate misalignments are predicted to have short-run effects in models with price rigidities, but the exact impact depends on a number of features, such as the pricing strategy of firms engaging in international trade and the importance of global production networks. This effect is predicted to disappear in the long-run, unless some other distortion characterizes the economy. Empirical results confirm that short-run effects can exist, but their size and persistence over time are not consistent across different studies.
Subjects: 
exchange rates
volatility
misalignments
international trade
JEL: 
F10
F31
F55
O19
G21
G32
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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