“…The RER function specification in this study corresponds to the model discussed in the previous subsection that incorporates real fundamental factors represented by government expenditure, productivity, terms of trade, and trade openness (Edwards, 1989). To accommodate the influence of domestic and global monetary variables in the RER dynamics, the specification is enhanced with the inclusion of net foreign assets, financial sector openness, real interest rate gap between the domestic economy and the US, and domestic real interest rate (Barbosa et al, 2018 andKaltenbrunner, 2015). The model can be specified as follows (with the expected sign of the coefficients in brackets) 3 :…”