Title

Exchange Rate Regimes and International Output Co-Movement

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1998

Publication Source

Applied Economics Letters

Abstract

Utlizing Johansen's (1988) multivariate cointegration testing procedure, we find a cointegrating vector between the outputs of five major industrialized nations for the fixed exchange rate period. However, this relationship breaks down for the flexible exchange rate era. We argue that the breakdown of monetary policy coordination caused by the abandonment of the fixed exchange rates explains the weakening of the international character of business cycles.

Inclusive pages

165-168

ISBN/ISSN

1350-5851

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Volume

5

Peer Reviewed

yes

Issue

3

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