The paper explores (former) transition economies, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and the Republic of Serbia, concerning abandonment of the exchange rate targeting and fixed exchange rate regimes and movement toward explicit/implicit inflation targeting and flexible exchange rate regimes. The...

Emerging economies have specificities which distance them compared to advanced economies in practicing inflation targeting (IT) monetary regime. One of the main differences in performing IT in advanced compared to emerging economies is “fear of floating†problem in emerging group....

In this paper, we examine the relative importance of external shocks in domestic fluctuations of East Asian countries and check if these shocks lead to asymmetric or symmetric reactions between the considered economies. To this end, we estimate, over the period 1990.1-2010.4, a structural VAR...

Les crises de change des années 90 se sont produites dans un contexte d'intégration financière internationale croissante. Elles ont relancé le débat relatif au choix du régime de change. Le triangle éternel de Krugman (1998) permet de comprendre les termes de ce débat. Ce triangle...

Au cours des années 90, les régimes d'ancrage souple dans les marchés émergent ont montré leur fragilité. En effet, de nombreuses crises de change ont frappé ces régimes, laissant alors apparaître un nouveau consensus autour des solutions en coins comme seuls régimes de change viables....

The aim of this paper is to evaluate to what extent more transparency can reduce the occurrence of speculative attacks. It proposes a survey of the literature about the pros and cons of transparency on the exchange rate market, which is one of the main pillars of the new international financial...

This paper analyses the monetary consequences of the Latin-American trade integration process. We consider a sample of five countries -Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay- spanning the period 1991-2007. The main question raised pertains to the feasibility of a monetary union between...

During the 90s emerging markets have been hit by recurrent exchange rate crises. Almost all these countries shared a common characteristic: they adopted in previous years soft pegs, the so-called intermediate exchange rate regimes. International institutions and academic economists interpreted...

La transparence est devenue l'un des piliers des banques centrales et des institutions internationales afin d'accroître leur efficacité. Dans cet article, nous nous interrogeons sur le bien fondé de cette stratégie en proposant une synthèse de la littérature existante. A partir de...

This paper studies to what extent the diversity of exchange rate regimes within Mercosur exerts an influence on the feasibility of a monetary union in this area. A semi-structural VAR model is built for each country, including a set of international and domestic variables. Based on impulse...