Does the Choice of a Nominal Exchange Rate Regime Matter for Real Exchange Rate Movements? Comments on Orlowski

Orlowski's paper is an important contribution to the literature on monetary policy in transition economies. It studies how variant monetary policies conducted in leading transition economies, Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic, have affected the real exchange rate trends differently. The sample period covers the post-95 period. Orlowski's findings indicate that the choice of a nominal exchange rate regime does matter for the behaviour of real economic variables