The role of saving and investment in exchange rate determination under alternative monetary mechanisms

Elhanan Helpman*, Assaf Razin

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Abstract

We argue that the demand for national currencies depends on existing payment arrangements for imports and exports. Therefore, exchange rate movements depend on these arrangement. As a result, the relationship between exchange rate movements and various macroeconomic aggregates - like saving and investment - depend on what we call the monetary mechanism. These points are explicitly demonstrated by studying two extreme monetary mechanisms, one in which all payments are done with the seller's currency and one in which all payments are done with the buyer's currency.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)307-325
Number of pages19
JournalJournal of Monetary Economics
Volume13
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1984

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