The Impact of Foreign Interest Rateson the Economy: The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime

This paper explores the connection between interest rates in major industrial countries and annual real output growth in other countries. The results show that high large-country interest rates have a contractionary effect on annual real GDP growth in the domestic economy, but that this effect is ce...

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Main Author: di Giovanni, Julian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C International Monetary Fund 2006
Series:IMF Working Papers Working Paper No. 06/37
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Summary:This paper explores the connection between interest rates in major industrial countries and annual real output growth in other countries. The results show that high large-country interest rates have a contractionary effect on annual real GDP growth in the domestic economy, but that this effect is centered on countries with fixed exchange rates. The paper then examines the potential channels through which large-country interest rates affect small economies. The direct monetary policy channel is the most likely channel when compared with other possibilities, such as a general capital market effect or a trade effect
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (46 p)
ISBN:1451862970
9781451862973

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