Real Exchange Rate Misalignment: Prelude to Crisis?



specification is an EGARCH specification with suitable lags of the variables in first differences.
Comparison of equations 2, 3 and 4 in Table 8 indicates that the set of variables found significant
for the pre-crisis period is nearly the same as that for the entire period. The coefficient of the
error correction term in Specification 4 is much smaller than in specification 2 and 3, likely
because Russian monetary authorities had less liberal policies for the exchange rate in the pre-
crisis period.32 Specification 4 will be utilized in Section 9 for out of sample forecasting.

Table 7

Poland: error correction equations (equation (5)) for real exchange rate

Coefficients Estimates
(p-value)

Variable

Specification 1
OLS
(1995:07 - 2001:09)

Specification 2

EGARCH(7, 4)

(1995:07 - 2001:09)

EC(-1)

-0.026933

-0.042708

(0.21)

(0.00)

∆log(TOT)

-0.025976

-0.018804

(0.04)

(0.00)

∆FLOW

-0.130739

-0.103030

(0.06)

(0.00)

∆log(OPEN)

0.035170

0.016684

(0.02)

(0.00)

∆log(GOV)

0.030413

0.013732

(0.18)

(0.02)

∆log(DCRE)

0. 170624

0.076929

(0.01)

(0.00)

∆log(NEER)

1.012465

0.938424

(0.00)

(0.00)

∆log(TOT(-1))

-0.003272

(0.00)

∆FLOW(-1)

-0.069762

32 The results on misalignment in section 8 below indicate that this rigid policy for the exchange rate contributed
to the currency crisis.

29



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