Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81854 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series No. 203
Publisher: 
Sveriges Riksbank, Stockholm
Abstract: 
This paper estimates and tests a new Keynesian small open economy model in the tradition of Christiano, Eichenbaum, and Evans (2005) and Smets and Wouters (2003) using Bayesian estimation techniques on Swedish data. To account for the switch to an inflation targeting regime in 1993 we allow for a discrete break in the central bank's instrument rule. A key equation in the model - the uncovered interest rate parity (UIP) condition - is well known to be rejected empirically. Therefore we explore the consequences of modifying the UIP condition to allow for a negative correlation between the risk premium and the expected change in the nominal exchange rate. The results show that the modification increases the persistence and volatility in the real exchange rate and that this model has an empirical advantage compared with the standard UIP specification.
Subjects: 
DSGE
VAR
VECM
Open economy
Bayesian inference
JEL: 
E17
C11
C53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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