Exchange Rate Regimes, Foreign Exchange Volatility and Export Performance in Central and Eastern Europe: Just Another Blur Project?

37 Pages Posted: 23 May 2006

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Balázs Égert

Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD); CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute); Université Paris X Nanterre - Department of Economics; William Davidson Institute

Amalia Morales-Zumaquero

University of Malaga - Departamento de Teoria e Historia Economica

Date Written: July 2005

Abstract

This paper attempts to analyze the direct impact of exchange rate volatility on the export performance of ten Central and Eastern European transition economies as well as its indirect impact via changes in exchange rate regimes. Not only aggregate but also bilateral and sectoral export flows are studied. To this end, we first analyze shifts in exchange rate volatility linked to changes in the exchange rate regimes and second, use these changes to construct dummy variables we include in our export function. The results suggest that the size and the direction of the impact of forex volatility and of regime changes on exports vary considerably across sectors and countries and that they may be related to specific periods.

Keywords: exchange rate volatility, export, trade, transition, structural breaks

JEL Classification: F31

Suggested Citation

Egert, Balazs and Morales-Zumaquero, Amalia, Exchange Rate Regimes, Foreign Exchange Volatility and Export Performance in Central and Eastern Europe: Just Another Blur Project? (July 2005). BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 8/2005, William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 782, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=903123 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.903123

Balazs Egert (Contact Author)

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Université Paris X Nanterre - Department of Economics

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Amalia Morales-Zumaquero

University of Malaga - Departamento de Teoria e Historia Economica ( email )

Malaga, Málaga 29004
Spain

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