This paper develops a small open economy model with sticky prices to show why a flexible exchange rate policy is not desirable in East Asian emerging market economies. We argue that weak input substitution between local labor and import intermediates in traded goods production and extensive use...

This working paper was written by Kang Shi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Juanyi Xu (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Simon Fraser University).This paper develops a small open economy model with sticky prices to show why a flexible exchange rate policy is not...