We investigate official and implicit nominal anchors for six Central and Eastern European countries during 1994 to 2002. Most of these countries have moved from fixed to more flexible regimes and adopted a form of inflation targeting. Achieving their new official targets has had mixed success....

Main description: Der Autor untersucht, ob sich im Zeitablauf trendmäßige Entwicklungen, insbesondere ein signifikanter Anstieg der Wechselkursvolatilität feststellen lassen, und wieweit diese durch das gewählte Wechselkursregime beeinflusst werden. Im Gegensatz zu bisherigen Arbeiten liegt...

Due to buoyant capital inflows East Asian central banks with exchange rate targets accumulate foreign reserves and thereby increase surplus liquidity. East Asian central banks with more flexible exchange rate regimes also face surplus liquidity that mainly emanates from past accumulation of...