This paper finds that limited exchange rate flexibility in the form of "fear of appreciation" significantly slows adjustment of current account imbalances, providing novel support for Friedman's conjecture regarding exchange-rate flexibility. We present a new stylized fact: floaters have faster...

The endogeneity of exchange-rate regimes / Barry Eichengreen -- Exchange-rate behavior under alternative exchange-rate arrangements / Mark P. Taylor -- Panel : one money for how many? / Richard N. Cooper, Ronald I. McKinnon, Michael Mussa -- Exchange rates, prices, and external adjustment in the...

This paper studies a dynamic-optimizing model of a small open economy with sticky nominal prices and wages. The model exhibits exchange rate overshooting in response to money supply shocks. The predicted variability of nominal and real exchange rates is roughly consistent with that of G7...