Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63206 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Memorandum No. 2005,26
Publisher: 
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo
Abstract: 
Dornbusch’s exchange rate overshooting hypothesis is a central building block in international macroeconomics. Yet, empirical studies of monetary policy have typically found exchange rate effects that are inconsistent with overshooting. This puzzling result has developed into a “styled facts” to be reckoned with in policy modelling. However, many of these studies, in particular those using VARs, have disregarded the strong contemporaneous interaction between monetary policy and exchange rate movements by placing zero restriction on them. By instead imposing a long-run neutrality restriction on the real exchange, thereby allowing the interest rate and the exchange rate to react simultaneously to any news, I find that the puzzles disappear. In particular, a contractionary monetary policy shock has a strong effect on the exchange rate that appreciates on impact. The maximum effect occurs immediately, and the exchange rate thereafter gradually depreciates to baseline, consistent with the Dornbusch overshooting hypothesis and with few exceptions consistent with UIP.
Subjects: 
Dornbusch overshooting
VAR
monetary policy
exchange rate puzzle
identification
JEL: 
C32
E52
F31
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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