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Measuring misalignments in the Korean exchange rate

SaangJoon Baak
- 01 Dec 2012 - 
- Vol. 24, Iss: 4, pp 227-234
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In this article, the authors measure to what extent the real effective exchange rate of the Korean won is misaligned from its equilibrium value by estimating the equilibrium value using the behavioral equilibrium exchange rate approach.
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This article is published in Japan and the World Economy.The article was published on 2012-12-01. It has received 11 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Exchange rate & Interest rate parity.

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The behaviour of the real effective exchange rate of South Africa: Is there a misalignment?

TL;DR: In this article, the extent of misalignment of the real effective exchange rate (REER) of the South African rand was examined and it was shown that South Africa being an open emerging market economy closely linked with global m...
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Exchange Rate Misalignment in Oil Exporting Countries (OPEC): Focusing on Iran

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the existence and the nature of real exchange rate misalignment in Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and found that all OPEC countries have had misalignments in their real exchange rates.
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World Consistent Equilibrium Exchange Rates

TL;DR: In this article, a systematic analysis of the problem of world consistency when deriving equilibrium exchange rates is proposed. But the analysis is limited to 15 countries of the G20 in effective as well as bilateral terms and by varying the assumptions concerning the rest of the world and the numeraire currency.
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Real Exchange Rate Misalignment and Currency Crises

TL;DR: In this article, the real exchange rate misalignment (RERM) of the rupiah was calculated to examine the role of misalignments in exchange rate crises in Indonesia.
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The Impact of the Chinese Renminbi on Korean and Japanese Exports to the United States

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impacts of the real exchange rates of the Chinese renminbi against the US dollar on Japanese and Korean exports to the United States, and found that the impact of renmonbi on the export functions of the two countries was different.
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The Purchasing-Power Parity Doctrine: A Reappraisal

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Dealing with Structural Breaks

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of methods related to estimation and inference about break dates for single equations with or without restrictions, with extensions to multi-equations systems where allowance is also made for changes in the variability of the shocks, tests for structural changes including tests for a single or multiple changes and tests valid with unit root or trending regressors, and tests for changes of the trend function of a series that can be integrated or trend-stationary.
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Exchange Rates and Economic Fundamentals: A Methodological Comparison of Beers and Feers

TL;DR: The analysis of exchange rate behavior has been a perennial topic in international monetary economics as discussed by the authors, and one strand of this literature relates to the explanation of observed movements in nominal and real exchange rates in terms of relevant economic variables, while another strand focuses on assessing exchange rates relative to economic fundamentals and coming to a judgement as to whether a particular exchange rate is misaligned, i.e., over- or undervalued.
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