The Impact of Monetary Policyon the Bilateral Exchange Rate : Chile Versus the United States /

This paper examines the reaction of the bilateral Ch USD/USD exchange rate to monetary policy actions in Chile and the United States. The approach is to regress the change in the exchange rate following a policy announcement on changes in market interest rates in response to the same announcement. U...

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Main Author: Zettelmeyer, Jeromin
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/071
Online Access:Full text available on IMF
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Summary:This paper examines the reaction of the bilateral Ch USD/USD exchange rate to monetary policy actions in Chile and the United States. The approach is to regress the change in the exchange rate following a policy announcement on changes in market interest rates in response to the same announcement. U.S. monetary policy actions that raise the three-month treasury bill rate by 1 percentage point lead to depreciations of the Chilean peso by about 1.5 to 2 percent. The exchange rate also reacts to monetary policy actions in Chile, but the response appears to be smaller, and cannot be estimated with much precision on the available sample.
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ISSN:1018-5941
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