At the same time, there was rapid growth in the external balance sheets of advanced
economies during the pre-crisis period (Lane and Milesi-Ferretti 2007a, 2008, Lane 2013a).
With foreign currencies forming a higher proportion of foreign assets than foreign liabil-ities, the net foreign currency exposures of advanced economies climbed, such that the valuation impact of a given shift in exchange rates was larger than in earlier periods.
In view of these structural changes and the scale of the exchange rate changes during
the global financial crisis in 2008-2009, it is important to quantify the contribution of the valuation channel of exchange rate adjustment.
This is the focus of this paper. Our primary aim is to calculate the valuation impact of currency movements during 2008-2009.