Can pegging reduce real as well as nominal, and multilateral as well as bilateralexchange rate volatility? We investigate this issue using monthly data for 139countries from January 1990 to June 2006...

This paper explores the relationship between the denomination ofpublic debt and the choice of exchange rate regime. Unlike indexeddomestic debt, foreign debt is subject to valuation e¤ects from realexchange rate shocks. In a standard set-up, where a peg functions onlyas a nominal anchor, more...

In currency crises, unlike in orderly devaluations, the financial markets dominateevents. It is shown that currency collapses (crises followed by depreciations) have hada much greater adverse impact in emerging markets (defined as relatively highincomedeveloping countries exposed to...

The standard model of currency crises is amended to distinguish betweenunemployment aversion and financial fragility. Fragility is assumed to affect theauthorities’ sensitivity to a combination of high real interest rates and unemployment.An increase in fragility expands the region of...

Die Entschlossenheit der Wirtschaftspolitik,sich mit niedrigen Zinsen undfi skalischen Impulsen gegen dieWeltwirtschaftskrise zu stemmen,provoziert Infl ationsbefürchtungen.Sie beruhen teilweise auf Mißverständnissenhinsichtlich des „Gelddruckens“der Notenbanken. Die Geldpolitikverfügt...