The unemployment effect of exchange rate volatility in industrial countries

Horst Feldmann

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2011.01.003

The unemployment effect of exchange rate volatility in industrial countries

Horst Feldmann

Department of Economics

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Using data on 17 industrial countries from 1982 to 2003 and controlling for a wide array of factors, this paper finds that higher exchange rate volatility increases the unemployment rate. The magnitude of the effect is small. The results are robust to variations in specification.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	268-271
Number of pages	4
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	111
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2011.01.003
Publication status	Published - 2011

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