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Title: Sterling Misalignment and British Trade Performance

Author(s): Charles R Bean

Publication Date: May 1987

Keyword(s): Exchange Rates, Exports, Hysteresis, Monetary Policy, Oil Exports and United Kingdom

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: In the first part of this paper I use a small macroeconomic model to examine the causes of the appreciation of sterling during 1979-81. Oil takes about half of the blame. Contractionary monetary policies alone do not seem sufficient to explain the rest, but when coupled with adverse supply-side developments they seem capable of explaining both the appreciation and the associated increase in unemployment. In the second part of the paper I examine the possibility that temporary fluctuations in the real exchange rate may have a permanent effect on British export performance. Using data from 1900 to the present I find evidence that is consistent with "hysteresis" effects on both the demand and supply side of the export market.

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Bean, C. 1987. 'Sterling Misalignment and British Trade Performance'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=177