Title: The effects of exchange rate volatility on sectoral exports evidence from Sweden, UK, and Germany

Authors: Dimitris Serenis; Nicholas Tsounis

Addresses: Adjunct Faculty, Department of International Trade, TEI of Western Macedonia, Kastoria 52 100, Greece ' Department of International Trade, TEI of Western Macedonia, Kastoria 52 100, Greece; Adjunct Faculty, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece

Abstract: This paper examines the effect of exchange rate volatility for a set of three European countries, Germany, Sweden and the UK, on sectoral exports for the period 1973 q1-2010 q4. In addition to the standard deviation of moving average of the logarithm of the exchange rate, a new measure capturing unexpected fluctuation of the exchange rate is examined using the autoregressive distributed lags (ARDL) modelling for co-integration. The results suggest that there exist a long-run co-integrating relationship between the exchange rate volatility and the level of exports for the sectors examined, in the UK and Germany, but it does not have an effect on the exports of Sweden.

Keywords: exchange rate volatility; exports; sectoral trade; UK; United Kingdom; Germany; Sweden; ARDL modelling; co-integration.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCEE.2015.066204

International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, 2015 Vol.5 No.1, pp.71 - 107

Received: 09 Feb 2013
Accepted: 18 Oct 2013

Published online: 17 May 2015 *

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