Cuiabano, Simone and Opoku-Afari, Maxwell (2017) Exchange rate dynamics and monetary integration in the EAC contries. TSE Working Paper, n. 17-848, Toulouse

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Abstract

A major challenge for most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa is the evaluation of the exchange rate. This is more so in the East African Community (EAC) where macroeconomic and exchange rate management has been in particular challenged by massive foreign aid inflows partly as a result of Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative and other debt reliefs. In addition; improved macroeconomic management in the last decade attracted both short and medium to long term inflows to the region, as foreign investors turn to developing and emerging economies for yield. In this paper we estimate the fundamental equilibrium exchange rate (FEER) model for all the countries in the EAC and we assess the convergence of existing exchange rate regimes in the EAC. Our main contribution is that this exercise may contribute as a useful background for the ultimate decision of which exchange rate management framework will best fit the region during the transition period to monetary union.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Language: English
Date: September 2017
Place of Publication: Toulouse
Uncontrolled Keywords: Real exchange rates, EAC countries, cointegration, exchange rate regimes
JEL Classification: C32 - Time-Series Models
F31 - Foreign Exchange
F41 - Open Economy Macroeconomics
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Institution: Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 17 Apr 2018 07:41
Last Modified: 17 Apr 2018 07:41
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:32101
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/25706
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