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....

In May 1997 the Czech Republic abandoned its exchange rate peg, the centrepiece of macroeconomic strategy since 1991. I examine the usefulness of theories of speculative attack in interpreting the crisis. Significantly, after the crisis subsided, competitiveness returned to its earlier level....

Auf den Devisenmärkten der mittel- und osteuropäischen Staaten kam es seit dem Beginn der Neunzigerjahre wiederholt zu spekulativem Druck. Eine Vielzahl von währungspolitischen Problemen und Währungskrisen infolge von Anpassungsprozessen in den Volkswirtschaften, inkonsistenten...

June 1999 - A regime-switching framework is used to study speculative attacks against European Monetary System currencies during 1979-93. Peria uses a regime-switching framework to study speculative attacks against European Monetary System (EMS) currencies during 1979-93. She identifies...