External and Internal Real Exchange Rates and the Dutch Disease in Africa: Evidence from a Panel of Nine Oil-Exporting Countries

Despite a large number of empirical studies on Dutch disease in developing countries and the evidence that oil revenues tend to appreciate the real exchange rate, there remains little discussion about the definition of real exchange rates. This article intends to fill this gap by using four different proxies of the real exchange rate, differentiating the internal and the external real exchange rates for agricultural and manufacturing sectors. Using Pooled-Mean-Group and Mean-Group estimates on a panel of nine African net oil-exporting countries, results show a clear appreciation of the RER gen... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Mien, Edouard
Dokumenttyp: preprint
Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
Verlag/Hrsg.: HAL CCSD
Schlagwörter: Dutch disease / Africa / Equilibrium real exchange rate / Pooled Mean Group Estimator / Oil revenues / JEL: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods/C.C2 - Single Equation Models • Single Variables/C.C2.C23 - Panel Data Models • Spatio-temporal Models / JEL: F - International Economics/F.F3 - International Finance/F.F3.F31 - Foreign Exchange / JEL: O - Economic Development / Innovation / Technological Change / and Growth/O.O1 - Economic Development/O.O1.O13 - Agriculture • Natural Resources • Energy • Environment • Other Primary Products / and Growth/O.O2 - Development Planning and Policy/O.O2.O24 - Trade Policy • Factor Movement Policy • Foreign Exchange Policy / and Growth/O.O5 - Economywide Country Studies/O.O5.O55 - Africa / [SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance / [SHS.STAT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Methods and statistics / [SHS.ENVIR]Humanities and Social Sciences/Environmental studies
Sprache: Englisch
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Despite a large number of empirical studies on Dutch disease in developing countries and the evidence that oil revenues tend to appreciate the real exchange rate, there remains little discussion about the definition of real exchange rates. This article intends to fill this gap by using four different proxies of the real exchange rate, differentiating the internal and the external real exchange rates for agricultural and manufacturing sectors. Using Pooled-Mean-Group and Mean-Group estimates on a panel of nine African net oil-exporting countries, results show a clear appreciation of the RER generated by oil revenues except for the internal real exchange rate for manufacturing goods. This could imply that oil revenues more clearly affect agricultural compared to manufacturing competitiveness in these African countries.