We propose a speculative attack model in which agents receive multiple public signals. It is characterised by its focus on an informational structure which sets free from the strict separation between public information and private information. Diverse pieces of public information can be taken...

This paper reconsiders a central bank's problem of determining rules for information dissemination and risk taking behavior that minimize the probability of currency crises. In a global games approach, we find that optimal transparency is adversely related to prior market beliefs. In countries...

This paper reconsiders the principal's problem of determining the optimal combination of risk taking and information dissemination, when threatened with a coordinated speculative attack on the fixed exchange rate by traders, respectively a coordinated withdrawal of credits by a group of lenders....