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economic booms in some peripheral Euro-zone countries financed by large capital inflows; the credit and asset price booms and … Latin American audiences. For those Euro-zone countries that built up large Euro-denominated external liabilities, Latin …
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Evidence suggests there is a strong tendency among states to choose fixed exchange rates. Yet he interpretation of fixed exchange rates as a monetary policy rule remains unconvincing. Adopting an endogenous policy perspective, this paper argues that political-support maximizing governments...
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Stylized empirical facts about the behaviour of exchange rates and interest rate differentials in real world target zone arrangements are at odds with the predictions of the simple (fully credible) target zone model. Incorporating time-varying devaluation risk in target zone models results in...
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Stylized empirical facts about the correlation between the volume of international trade and exchange rate variability/uncertainty are at odds with the predictions of the simple open economy model. The present paper argues that this puzzle may be explained by drawing on the recent theoretical...
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The 14 Pacific developing member countries (DMCs) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have opted for very different exchange rate regimes with varying degrees of flexibility. Whereas several microstates have adopted an external currency as their legal tender, others have decided to use a basket...
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In contrast to the popular bipolar view on exchange rate choices, this paper argues that intermediate regimes in general and regional exchange rate systems such as the European Monetary System (EMS) in particular should not be ruled out per se when discussing monetary options for East Asian...
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recent euro periphery crisis. Trade costs can limit the pass-through of internal devaluation on export prices. Using data on … relative to domestic prices in the euro periphery. Furthermore, VAT (in theory trade neutral, but in practice much higher on … the euro periphery fiscal devaluation programs, and show that it can account for the most salient features of the data …
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