The IMF classifications of the Central and Eastern European exchange rate arrangements are heterogeneous. While one group of countries reports tight pegs to the euro, a second group seems to have moved toward (more) exchange rate flexibility. Based on the recent discussion about the accuracy of...

While up to the late 1990s Japanese foreign exchange intervention was fully sterilized, Japanese monetary authorities left foreign exchange intervention unsterilized when Japan entered the liquidity trap in 1999. According to previous research on foreign exchange intervention, unsterilized...

Since the introduction of the euro in January 1999, exchange rate stability at the periphery of the euro area is growing. The paper investigates the impact of exchange rate stability on growth for a sample of 41 mostly small open economies at the EMU periphery. It identifies international trade,...

Die Jahre vor der Finanzkrise waren durch ein rasches Produktionswachstum in der Weltwirtschaft insgesamt, vor allem aber durch ein beeindruckendes Wachstum der BRIC-Staaten und weiterer Schwellenländer gekennzeichnet. Nach Ansicht von Thomas Mirow, Präsident der European Bank for...