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Exchange Rate Economics: Theories and Evidence

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122 The sticky-price monetary model<br />

s<br />

p =0<br />

A<br />

Y<br />

B<br />

X<br />

s =0<br />

C<br />

p = 0 (new)<br />

s = 0 (new)<br />

O<br />

p<br />

Figure 5.10 Goods market wealth effect dominates money market wealth effect.<br />

s<br />

p =0<br />

A<br />

SP 1<br />

p =0<br />

(new)<br />

s =0<br />

C<br />

B<br />

s = 0 (new)<br />

SP 2<br />

O<br />

p<br />

Figure 5.11 Money market wealth effect dominates goods market wealth effect.<br />

output must rise,which with sticky prices in the short term can only be achieved<br />

by a (sharp) exchange rate appreciation. The latter,since it is part of the deflator<br />

of nominal money balances,increases real money balances,lowers the domestic<br />

interest rate requiring,via (5.26),a continuing exchange rate appreciation as we<br />

move out of the short-run period. Outwith the short-run period the effect on<br />

dem<strong>and</strong> of the increased oil wealth results in a steadily rising price level to the<br />

new equilibrium at C. Figure 5.11 illustrates the situation where the oil discovery<br />

dominates the dem<strong>and</strong> for money. The exchange rate again appreciates from

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