External currency pricing and the East Asian crisis

被引:35
作者
Cook, David [1 ]
Devereux, Michael B.
机构
[1] Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China
[2] Univ British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9, Canada
关键词
East Asian crisis; sticky prices; external currency pricing;
D O I
10.1016/j.jinteco.2005.06.010
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
This paper provides a quantitative investigation of the East Asian crisis of 1997-1999. We stress two essential features of the crisis. First, the crisis was a regional phenomenon; the depth and severity of the crisis were exacerbated by a large decline in regional demand. Second, the predominance of the US dollar in the pricing of export goods in Asia (which we document empirically) led to a powerful internal propagation effect of the crisis within the region, contributing greatly to the decline in regional trade flows. We construct a multi-country macroeconomic model which contains these two features and show that it can do a good job in accounting for the response of the main macroeconomic aggregates in Korea, Malaysia and Thailand during the crisis. A key advantage of our model is that it can explain the very slow response of exports to the large real exchange rate depreciations that took place during the crisis. Without the regional dimension and dollar pricing of exports, we find that the model fails to account for the depth and severity of the crisis. (c) 2005 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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