Exchange Rate Volatility and International Trade Flows: Evidence from Thailand

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Mai Lien Thi Dau
Yuthana Sethapramote

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         The paper examines the impact of exchange rate volatility on bilateral imports and exports between Thailand and its top-20trading partners from 1996 to 2018 using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach.  Our empirical results show three main findings. First, exchange rate volatility was found to have a significant effect on Thailand’s trade with most countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Secondly, exchange rate volatility mostly had a positive effect on Thailand’s bilateral trade in the short run; however, these effects were found to be negative in the long run. Finally, exchange rate volatility generally was seen to have a slightly stronger effect on imports rather than exports in both the short and long run.  This implies that Thai imports show a greater response to exchange rate volatility than Thai exports.

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Dau, M. L. T., & Sethapramote, Y. (2021). Exchange Rate Volatility and International Trade Flows: Evidence from Thailand. Journal of Applied Economics and Management Strategy, 8(2), 57–75. Retrieved from https://kuojs.lib.ku.ac.th/index.php/jems/article/view/3504
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บทความวิจัย (Research Article)