Calculating Required Nominal Depreciation to Maintain Competitiveness
To illustrate how a country maintains competitiveness, consider a scenario where domestic inflation is 10% and foreign inflation is 2%. To maintain a constant real exchange rate, the domestic currency's nominal exchange rate must depreciate at a rate of 8% per year. This depreciation is a necessary condition derived from the formula . If this condition is not met, the real exchange rate will change, which would impact real economic variables like output and employment and move the economy away from its supply-side equilibrium.
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