Fertility and exchange rates
Posted July 30th, 2007 by Tara Murray in FertilityA new working paper from the National Bureau for Economic Research (NBER) examines the link between a country’s fertility rate and the real effective exchange rate, confirming the theory that a country with declining fertility “can be expected to have higher savings, lower investment, a current account surplus, and accordingly a real depreciation.” (Fertility and the Real Exchange Rate, by Andrew K. Rose & Saktiandi Supaat)
