Abstract |
This paperdevelops an explicitly stochastic new open economy macroeconomics'model, which can potentially be used to explore the qualitative andquantitative welfare differences between alternative exchange rateregimes. A crucial feature is that we do not simplify by assumingcertainty equivalence for producer price setting behavior. Ourframework also provides a sticky-price alternative to Lucas's (1982)exchage rate risk premium model. We show that the level risk premium'in the exchage rate is potentially quite large and may be an importantmissing fundamental in empirical exchange rate equations. As abyproduct analysis also suggests an intriguing possible explanation ofthe forward premium puzzle.