DETERMINANTS OF REAL EXCHANGE RATE IN ETHIOPIA

Journal Title: International journal of research -GRANTHAALAYAH - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 6

Abstract

Real exchange rate has direct effects on trade particularly on international trade and has indirect effects on productions and employments, so it is crucial to understand the factors which determine its variations. This study analyses the main determinants of the real exchange rate and the dynamic adjustment of the real exchange rate following shocks to those determinants using yearly Ethiopian time series data covering the period 1971 to 2010. It begins with a review of literatures on Exchange rate, real exchange rate, determinants of the real exchange rate and provides an updated background on the exchange rate system in Ethiopia. An empirical model linking the real exchange rate to its theoretical determinants is then specified. This study had employed the cointegration and vector autoregression (VAR) analysis with impulse response and variance decomposition analyses to provide robust long run effects and short run dynamic effects on the real exchange rate. Share of investment, foreign exchange reserve, capital inflow and government consumption of non-tradable goods were the variable that have been found to have a long run relationship with the real exchange rate. The estimate of the speed of adjustment coefficient found in this study indicates that about a third of the variation in the real exchange rate from its equilibrium level is corrected within a year

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  • EP ID EP211392
  • DOI 10.5281/zenodo.56775
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(2016). DETERMINANTS OF REAL EXCHANGE RATE IN ETHIOPIA. International journal of research -GRANTHAALAYAH, 4(6), 183-210. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-211392