The management of the exchange rate by the Russian authorities obviously lacks both effectiveness and efficiency. "Black Tuesday" has vividly shown how vulnerable the rouble is to speculative attacks. In this article, a "classical" proposal is evoked and is discussed as an alternative to the...

In this paper, we first formulate a number of working hypotheses about the likely contributions of exchange rate policy to economic development on the background of the famous trilemmaʺ which exchange rate policy has to face. Then, we broadly review experiences made by developing countries with...

In this paper, we discuss the new aspects of exchange rate policy which can be observed in the emerging market economies and their most likely implications for allocation, distribution and stabilization goals. A special emphasis is put on the Chinese case, where large interventions in the...