Does trade integration alter monetary policy transmission?

  • This paper explores the role of trade integration—or openness—for monetary policy transmission in a medium-scale New Keynesian model. Allowing for strategic complementarities in price-setting, we highlight a new dimension of the exchange rate channel by which monetary policy directly impacts domestic inflation. Although the strength of this effect increases with economic openness, it also requires that import prices respond to exchange rate changes. In this case domestic producers find it optimal to adjust their prices to exchange rate changes which alter the domestic currency price of their foreign competitors. We pin down key parameters of the model by matching impulse responses obtained from a vector autoregression on U.S. time series relative to an aggregate of industrialized countries. While we find evidence for strong complementarities, exchange rate pass-through is limited. Openness has therefore little bearing on monetary transmission in the estimated model.

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Author:Tobias J. Cwik, Gernot J. Müller, Maik Hendrik WoltersORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-57676
Parent Title (German):Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 2008,29
Series (Serial Number):CFS working paper series (2008, 29)
Document Type:Working Paper
Language:English
Year of Completion:2008
Year of first Publication:2008
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2008/09/24
Tag:Exchange Rate Channel; Exchange Rate Pass-Through; Monetary Policy Transmission; Open Economy; Strategic Complementarity; Trade Integration
GND Keyword:USA; Geldpolitik; Wechselkurs; Außenhandel; Neokeynesianismus
HeBIS-PPN:205705693
Institutes:Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS)
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht