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A key challenge for macroeconomic policy in open economies is how to simultaneously manage exchange rates, interest rates and capital account openness - the trilemma. This paper calculates a trilemma index for India and investigates its evolution over time. We find that financial integration has...
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In most countries, the central bank is required to hold reserve assets as a means of providing credibility for the …
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For now, effective capital controls allow the Chinese authorities to retain regulated deposit and lending rates, quantitative credit guidance and bond market rationing. Relaxation of the capital controls would put these policies at risk. Reserve requirements can be extended to bank inflows from...
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We develop a novel, risk-based theory of the effects of currency manipulation. In our model, the choice of exchange rate regime allows policymakers to make their currency, and by extension, the firms in their country, a safer investment for international investors. Policies that induce a...
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countries. We argue that in practice, there could well be significant costs to central bank communication and credibility under …
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Floating exchange rates seem to be gaining ground in Latin America, East Asia and the transition economies. The recent crises left many economies with no alternative but to float. Others have moved toward floating, searching for greater flexibility and insulation from external shocks. The...
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This study revisits and tests empirically the Portfolio Theory of Inflation (PTI), which analyzes how the effectiveness of macroeconomic policy in open and globally financially integrated economies is influenced by global investor decisions (Bossone, The portfolio theory of inflation and policy...
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monetary rules, the two basic features of which are high credibility of monetary authorities and the existence of automatic … the perspective of the sources and mechanisms of generating confidence and credibility, and the elements of operation of …) although asymmetry is a typical feature of any monetary regime. The lack of credibility is typical for peripheral countries and …
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This paper argues that, in the September 1992 European currency crisis, market trends in derivatives, in terms of price volatility and change in volumes traded, might have represented an early indicator, in reference to the spot market, of the lack of confidence in the ability of the Italian...
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proportion of sophisticated agents. Thus, the credibility of a fixed exchange rate regime grows over time partly because fewer …
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