We derive the optimal exchange rate policy for a small open economy subject to terms-of-trade shocks. Firm owners and workers are risk averse but workers more so. Wages are given or partially indexed in the short run, and capital markets are imperfect. The government sets the exchange rate to...

We derive the optimal exchange rate policy for a small open economy subject to terms-oftrade shocks. Firm owners and workers are risk averse but workers more so. Wages are given or partially indexed in the short run, and capital markets are imperfect. The government sets the exchange rate to...

We study mobilization of mitigation finance ( MF ) through a collaborative agreement between contributing high-income H countries, where the mobilized MF funds are collected and managed by a coordinating international financial institution (IFI). The mobilized MF is applied to implement...

Border carbon adjustments (BCA) imply that high-income (H) countries set taxes on carbon-intensive imports proportional to the carbon content of these imports, to match their own carbon taxes. This paper considers the use of BCA policies to incentivize carbon taxation in low-income exporter...