Placing limits on the movement of economic fundamentals in order to maintain an exchange rate within a target zone also puts a target zone around interest rate differentials. The bandwidth of exchange rate and interest rate differentials target zones will be different except at one point; it is...

The paper explicitly derives the conditional distribution of exchange rates and interest rate differentials in the target zone model of Krugman (1991). The exact conditional density function is subsequently utilized in maximum likelihood estimation in which narrower undeclared bands within...

A key prediction of the target zone exchange rate model is that the exchange rate should be mean reverting within the band. This short note investigates this theoretical prediction in the case of the euro/Cyprus pound exchange rate. Although other target zone arrangements have been studied...

This paper analyzes the empirical fit of a new approach to exchange rate target zones. Unlike most of the literature on target zones, we use an estimation procedure that takes explicitly into account the band constraints, and hence their effect on the expectations of agents. Crucially, we do not...

The paper argues that real world fixed exchange rate regimes usually have finite bands instead of completely fixed exchange rates between realignments because exchange rate bands, contrary to the textbook result, give central banks some monetary independence even with free international capital...

Using Krugman's (1991) target zone model, we find an explicit, sub-game perfect solution for a central bank wishing to stabilize the exchange rate given proportional costs of intervention. We demonstrate, however, that precommitment to narrower bands would yield a welfare gain - which provides a...

In this paper we present evidence concerning the existence of target zone nonlinearities in the Spanish Peseta/Deutsche Mark exchange rate using data with daily frequency for the period 1989-1996. Using a non-parametric technique, the Alternation Conditional Expectations (ACE) algorithm, we...

In credible target zone regimes, exchange rates should, according to Krugman's 1991 theory, spend a disproportionate amount of time near the edges of the fluctuation band. The major application of this theory has been to the European Monetary System (EMS), with several authors reporting that...