The choice of exchange rate regime: "An empirical analysis for transition economies" *
We analyze the choice of exchange rate regimes of the 25 transition economies in Europe and the CIS after 1990. The empirical results show that the traditional Optimum Currency Area considerations provide relevant guidance for the regime choices in these countries. Moreover, regime choices are influenced by inflation rates, cumulative inflation differentials, and international reserves sufficiency. That is, macroeconomic stabilization and the ability to commit to exchange rate pegs also play important roles. Large government deficits have ambiguous effects; they increase the likelihood of moving from flexible to intermediate regimes as well as that of moving from fixed to intermediate ones. Copyright (c) The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 2005.
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2005
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Authors: | Hagen, Jürgen von ; Zhou, Jizhong |
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The Economics of Transition. - European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). - Vol. 13.2005, 4, p. 679-703
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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) |
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