• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Mr. Keynes meets the classics: Government spending and the real exchange rate
  • Contributor: Born, Benjamin [Author]; D'Ascanio, Francesco [Author]; Müller, Gernot J. [Author]; Pfeifer, Johannes [Author]
  • imprint: Munich: ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, 2021
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: exchangerate peg ; real exchange rate ; government spending shocks ; F41 ; Downward nominal wage rigidity ; asymmetric adjustment ; E62 ; depreciation bias ; nonlinear effects ; F44
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  • Description: In economies with fixed exchange rates, the adjustment to government spending shocks is asymmetric. A fiscal expansion appreciates the real exchange rate but does not stimulate output. A fiscal contraction does not alter the exchange rate, but lowers output. We develop these insights in a two-sector model of a small open economy with downward nominal wage rigidity. We establish new empirical evidence that supports the predictions of the model along several dimensions: not only does the exchange rate regime shape the fiscal transmission mechanism as predicted by the model - in doing so it also interacts with economic slack and inflation.
  • Access State: Open Access