Submitted by Yuri Verges (yuriverges@globo.com) on 2013-09-16T17:39:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao - Mestrado - Final_emp.pdf: 1197027 bytes, checksum: 7764f3a7c8f5b1629b0653dfe430a87a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Suzinei Teles Garcia Garcia (suzinei.garcia@fgv.br) on 2013-09-16T17:40:56Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao - Mestrado - Final_emp.pdf: 1197027 bytes, checksum: 7764f3a7c8f5b1629b0653dfe430a87a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-09-16T17:44:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao - Mestrado - Final_emp.pdf: 1197027 bytes, checksum: 7764f3a7c8f5b1629b0653dfe430a87a (MD5) / This work aims to estimate and compare VECM models with the TVECM models, in the modeling and study of exchange rate misalignment and how the adjustment of the real exchange rates proceed under a nonlinear modeling scope. Error correction models with distinct characteristics will be addressed as a strategy to study the error correction mechanism. As a linear method, this work will use the cointegration techniques proposed by Johansen (1988), the traditional approach. And as the nonlinear method the approach used was initially proposed by Balke and Fomby (1997), who consider a mechanism for error correction to incorporate features TAR and SETAR. To analyze the presence of nonlinearity in the error correction between time series, were performed in this work the proposed tests by Kapetanios, Shin and Snell, (2003), Hansen and Seo (2002) and Seo (2006) / Esta dissertação tem como objetivo a estimação e comparação entre modelos VECM com a abordagem de modelos TVECM, na modelagem e estudo do desalinhamento cambial e como o ajuste do câmbio real para que procede. Como estratégia a ser abordada serão considerados modelos de correção de erros com características distintas. Utilizaremos como abordagem linear a técnica de cointegração proposta por Johansen (1988), a abordagem tradicional. Como técnica não linear utilizaremos a abordagem inicialmente proposta por BALKE, FOMBY(1997), que consideram um mecanismo de correção de erros de forma a incorporar características TAR e SETAR. Para a análise da presença ou não de não linearidade na correção de erros entre as séries, foram realizados neste trabalho os testes de Kapetanios, Shin e Snell (2003), Hansen e Seo(2002) e Seo (2006)

Magister Commercii - MCom / The purpose of this study was to evaluate econometrically the effects of real exchange rate misalignment on South African exports between the period 1994 and 2015 using quarterly time-series data. Cointegration tests were done using the Johansen and Juselius approach. The study examined the effects of real exchange rate misalignment of the rand on South Africa’s exports, namely manufactured goods exports, automotive and chemical exports, mining exports, machinery and transport equipment exports and agricultural exports, on both an aggregate and a sectoral level. The long run impact of real exchange rate misalignment on total exports was found to be negative and significant, implying that real exchange rate misalignment negatively affects exports. In the short run, misalignment of the currency was found to enhance export growth and is not sustainable in the long run. On the sectoral level, the study found that in the long run exports are influenced by real exchange rate misalignment with varying sensitivity. Manufactured goods exports, automotive and chemical exports and machinery and transport equipment exports are all negatively affected by real exchange rate misalignment. On the contrary, mining exports and agricultural exports are positively affected by real exchange rate misalignment. Therefore, if an export-led growth path is envisaged for the South African economy, it is important for monetary and fiscal policy to be conducted in such a manner that ensures stability in the real exchange rate at an appropriate level. This will ultimately aid export competitiveness for South Africa. Based on the findings of this study, the researcher recommends that misalignment of the currency should be avoided at all costs.

The Current Account and Balance of Payments: Implications towards the Real Exchange Rate, GDP Growth, Asset Prices and Stability Abstract in English In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, large global imbalances among countries' current account have been cited as a possible cause. The real exchange rate emerges as a key policy tool among countries within the research literature and in practice to manage a country's Balance of Payments indicators, despite mixed evidence. In this master thesis, we will construct a vector error correction model for cointegrating relationships utilizing the Johansen's test, using time series data for the US, UK, and Australia for the period 1973-2018. We examined the relationships between the real exchange rate, the current account, the financial account, net reserves, the interest rate, and openness to trade as well as employing Granger Causality tests. In the US, we found relationships between net reserves and both the current account and the real exchange rate. In the UK, the interest rate and the real exchange rate have a cointegrating relationship. In both the UK and Australia, we found a cointegrating relationship with the real exchange rate and current account. We examine the various theoretical and practical approaches towards viewing the Balance of Payments...

Using a hybrid of the Heckscher–Ohlin model and specific factor model of trade, this article considers the phenomenon of FDI inflows only in the exportable sector of developing economies. We investigate the impact of such capital flow on factor prices and the real exchange rate (RER) in the host country. Our results indicate that the exportable production expands while both the non-traded good production and the return to the factor specific to the non-traded good decrease, consequent upon an inflow of capital specific to the exportable sector. The effect of such inflow of foreign capital on the RER is unambiguous and it increases. JEL Codes: F1, F21, F31

This thesis analyses the extent to which a boom in a particular export commodity sector (i.e., oil) affects relative price of non-tradable goods against tradable goods, the real exchange rate and competitiveness in the rest of the economy: This problem has been analysed in the early stage by (Corden and Neary 1982) with the so-called ‘Dutch-disease’. As a result, booming sector (oil Sector) the country’s currency appreciates, thereby reducing the competitiveness of the country’s traditional export sector in international market. This thesis examines whether Dutch Disease is present in Iraq in the light of having not study about Dutch Disease phenomena. It evaluates the impact of growing oil revenues on non-oil sectors of the Iraqi economy. It produces some empirical evidence for the explanation non-tradable goods and contraction of tradable goods sector due to booming oil sector and appreciation real exchange rate and made tradable goods sector become uncompetitive for export. The main findings form this thesis that the Iraqi economy was subject to have the Dutch disease phenomena during the boom. Some of the indications of the disease, remarkably the increase of relative prices, the real exchange rate appreciation, contraction tradable goods sector and expansion of nontraded goods output were applicable. The study uses annual time series data sourced from home and international agencies from 1970 to 2013. Due to problem with endogeneity, the data are analysed through the use of two stages least square. Finally, the thesis discusses briefly some policy measures that will help avoid the issue of appreciation real exchange rate and changing the structure of economy out of tradable goods to non-tradable goods sector.

La inversión extranjera directa (IED) es uno de los elementos más importantes para el desarrollo de las economías emergentes por la transmisión de tecnología que genera. La literatura muestra que el tipo de cambio real y su volatilidad son unos de las principales determinantes de la entrada de IED. Asimismo, a pesar de que se ha investigado empíricamente la relación entre estas variables con la IED, la literatura no establece un signo claro, y los resultados varían según la economía que se analice. Por ello, considerando la importancia del tema, el presente estudio investiga la relación entre las variables mencionadas para el caso peruano para el periodo 1996 - 2019, utilizando el modelo de cointegración de Johansen y el modelo VEC para la relación de largo plazo. Los principales hallazgos del estudio revelan que, en el largo plazo, el PBI y la apertura comercial tienen una relación positiva con la IED, pero los términos de intercambio y el tipo de cambio real tienen una relación negativa. La volatilidad, por su parte, se estima con los modelos ARCH – GARCH, pero para el caso peruano el impacto resulta no ser significativo en el largo plazo sobre la IED. / Foreign direct investment (FDI) is one of the most important elements for the development of emerging economies due to the transmission of technology it generates. The literature shows that the real exchange rate and its volatility are one of the main determinants of the inflow of FDI. Also, although the relationship between these variables with FDI has been empirically investigated, the literature does not establish a clear sign, and the results vary according to the economy being analyzed. Therefore, considering the importance of the subject, this study investigates the relationship between the variables mentioned for the Peruvian case for the period of 1996 - 2019, using the Johansen cointegration model and the VEC model for the long-term relationship. The main findings of the study reveal that, in the long term, GDP and trade openness have a positive relationship with FDI, but the terms of trade and the real exchange rate have a negative relationship. Volatility, on the other hand, is estimated with the ARCH - GARCH models, but for the Peruvian case the impact turns out not to be significant in the long term on FDI. / Trabajo de investigación

Thesis (M. Com. (Economics)) -- University of Limpopo, 2021 / Investment as one of the main macroeconomic variables can ensure development of infrastructure and economic growth through increasing productivity and attracting investors. This study examined key determinants of investment activities by means of a comparative analysis between the SADC and BRICS groups during the period 2004- 2019. The key variables were the real exchange rate, real interest rate and trade openness. The analysis began by reporting unit roots tests, which paved way for employing Panel Autoregressive Distributive Lag (PARDL) methodology in the existence of different orders of integration. To estimate the long run relationship between the variables, we made use of the panel Johansen cointegration test, Pedroni test, Kao test and the Johansen Fisher cointegration test. Through the PARDL, the exchange rate and trade openness were found to be positive and statistically significant determinants of investment in SADC although statistically insignificant in the BRICS group. In addition, interest rates yielded insignificant results in the SADC region while, on the contrary, yielded a negative and statistically significant relationship in the BRICS group. The Granger causality test indicated a bi-directional causality in the exchange rate-investment and trade openness investment nexus for the SADC group while there was no causality in the BRICS group. It can be concluded that trade openness and exchange rate are key determinants of investment in the SADC region while interest rates are key in the BRICS group. It is therefore recommended that in order to attract investors and boost investment activities the SADC group need to focus more on exchange rate stability and trade openness while the BRICS group need to pay more attention to the flexibility of interest rates. This is beneficial on trading patterns, more for South Africa as it can be found in both groups.

中國在世界貿易舞台上所扮演的角色日益重要，人民幣的均衡水準成為十分熱門的議題。本文為貿易財與非貿易財部門的相對生產力找尋新的代理變數來檢視Balassa-Samuelson效果，以解決中國物價指數因受政府控制而難以反映實際生產力的問題。此外，亦將對人民幣匯率的預期引進實證模型中，以量化分析來探討人民幣是否具有自我實現的行為。本文實證結果顯示人民幣均衡匯率與相對生產力、貿易開放程度、熱錢數目間有長期關係。貿易財與非貿易財相對生產力與熱錢數目的上升可能帶動人民幣升值；貿易開放程度則與均衡匯率呈反向關係。 / As China plays an important role in the world economy, the research on the real exchange rate in China has received a lot of attention. This study chiefly contributes to adopt a more reliable proxy different from previous studies to capture the Balassa-Samuelson effect; in addition, we formerly introduce the expectation of Renminbi into the empirical model. This paper empirically investigates the behavior of the real exchange rate in China during the period from 1980 to 2005. Particularly, we provide a single-equation in an empirical framework which takes the specific features and characteristics in China economy into account. The empirical evidence shows that the degree of openness, the volume of hot money, and the relative productivity of traded to nontraded sectors are key factors to the determination of the long-run equilibrium real exchange rate in China. Both the increases in the relative productivity and an anticipated appreciation in the real exchange rate eventually may lead to a real appreciation in the currency. In contrast, the influence for opening up to the world economy is that the real exchange rate may depreciate.

China has been in a state that the currency appreciation is needed to restore the external balance. However, it appears that Chinese government worries about that the Renminbi appreciation may decrease the output. This purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate whether the contractionary hypothesis prevailing in developing countries holds for China with quarterly data over the period from 1995Q1 to 2006Q2. We apply VAR models by means of impulse response functions and variance decompositions. The empirical evidences indicate that even taking the spurious correlation into account, the real appreciation of Renminbi leads to a fall in China’s output. Thus, our findings do not support the contractionary devaluation hypothesis. Moreover, the impact of the exchange rate on output is not through the inflation rate. In the short run, real exchange rate shocks have much power in explaining the output’s variation while the U.S interest rate and government spending shocks are determinants to the variation in output in the long run. Particularly, the monetary policy has relatively weak effect on the output and the real exchange rate.

This dissertation comprises three essays on macroeconomic impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI). The first essay analyses the impact of FDI on the growth rate of total factor productivity of host countries. The essay focuses on 77 low- and middle-income countries and is based on balanced panel data for the period 1980-2008. The system GMM and common correlated effects (CCE) panel data methods are applied to estimate the models. Estimated coefficients show that FDI does not have any significant impact on the growth rate and the levels of TFP. The second essay investigates the relationship between FDI and domestic investment focusing on low- and middle-income countries, and using panel data for the period 1980-2012. It applies common parameter and heterogeneous parameter, static and dynamic, single equation and simultaneous equation panel data econometric techniques to study the relationship. Empirical findings suggest that FDI crowds our domestic investment. Our estimated coefficients also suggest that countries that have weak institutions, less developed financial systems, less human capital, less developed infrastructure, or economies that are more open, are more exposed to foreign competition and experience stronger crowding out from inward FDI. In the third essay, the influence of capital flows on the real exchange rate of recipient countries is analysed. The influence of three important capital flows, viz. foreign direct investment (FDI), foreign aid, and remittances, are assessed on the real exchange rate, using data for 45 middle- and low-income countries for the period 1980–2013. Both heterogeneous and homogeneous panel data methods are applied to estimate the real exchange rate models. The estimated coefficients of these models imply that foreign direct investment (FDI) and remittances do not influence the real exchange rate. Aid tends to depreciate the real exchange rate. Findings also suggest that financial development does not influence the exchange rate impact of aid in our sample countries. The study further finds that while aid tends to increase real exchange rate volatility, FDI and remittances do not have any robust influence on volatility. / February 2017