The effects of capital market openness on exchange rate pass-through and welfare in an inflation targeting small open economy

Sanchita Mukherjee ()

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Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of capital market openness on exchange rate pass-through and subsequently on the social loss in an inflation targeting small open economy under a pure commitment policy. Applying the intuition behind the macroeconomic trilemma, I examine whether a more open capital market in an inflation targeting country improves the credibility of the central bank and consequently reduces exchange rate pass-through. First, I empirically examine the effect of capital openness on exchange rate pass-through using a New Keynesian Phillips curve. The empirical investigation reveals that limited capital openness leads to greater pass-through from the exchange rate to domestic inflation, which raises the marginal cost of deviation from the inflation target. This subsequently worsens the inflation output-gap trade-off and increases the social loss of the inflation targeting central bank under pure commitment. However, the calibration results suggest that the inflation output-gap trade-off improves and the social loss decreases even in the presence of larger exchange rate pass-through if the capital controls are effective at insulating the exchange rate from interest rate and risk-premia shocks.

Keywords: Monetary policy; Inflation Targeting; Exchange rate pass-through; Capital account openness; Small open economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E44 E52 E58 F41 F47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-04-12
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