Exchange rates and currency
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- Unilateral basket peg offers the highest regime gains for East Asian countries
- ( P. Wilson / National University of Singapore, Department of Economics , 2007)
- During the Asian financial crisis, unilateral exchange rate regimes did not cope very well with massive capital inflows. Hard pegs or free floating regimes proved to be either too risky or too rigid. ...
- Managed float regimes with little sterilisation deal best with aid surges
- ( C. Adam;E. Buffie;S. O'Connell / Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford , 2007)
- Highly persistent shocks to aid flows such as HIPC or MDG-related increases in net flows have beneficial long-run effects. However, they produce dramatic macroeconomic management problems in the short...
- Successful policies bringing economic growth and poverty reduction in Argentina
- ( L. Sandoval;M. Weisbrot / Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington , 2007)
- Argentina has recovered quickly from a record sovereign debt default and financial collapse in December 2001. The authors argue that this was due to a shift in government policy after IMF promoted aus...
- The dangers of pegging a currency to the US dollar
- ( J.D. Alba;D. Park / Asian Development Bank , 2007)
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The exchange rate peg to the United States dollar is widely believed to have been a major cause of the Asian financial crisis of 1997. This paper examines the actual behaviour of pre-crisis exchang...
- International financial implications of currency movements
- ( P. R. Lane;J. C. Shambaugh / Institute for International Integration Studies, Ireland , 2007)
- This paper aims to improve the empirical understanding of the international financial implications of currency movements. The analysis shows that trade-weighted exchange rate indices are an inadequate...
- Macroeconomic policies should support the achievement of the MDGs
- ( J. Weeks;T. McKinley / UNDP International Poverty Centre , 2007)
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An alternative macroeconomic framework oriented towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Sub-Saharan Africa is known and feasible. Currently, the effects of neoliberal reforms h...
- A novel model-based approach to assessing benefits of international currencies
- ( K. Prakash / International Monetary Fund , 2007)
- This paper presents a novel model-based approach in assessing the welfare benefits associated with the international use of a country's currency. It looks at equilibria in an open-economy framework wh...
- Can monetary policies expand decent employment in Kenya?
- ( R. Pollin; J. Heintz / UNDP International Poverty Centre , 2007)
- This paper examines the current Kenyan monetary regime and evaluates the extent to which it is able to promote sustainable economic development that significantly expands decent employment opportuniti...
- Monetary policy is not gender neutral: negative effects on women’s employment
- ( E. Braunstein; J. Heintz / The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics , 2006)
- Central banks in developing countries are increasingly turning to maintaining a low inflation rate as the central target of monetary policy, without much consideration for how these policies impact th...
- Which countries should be included in the first stages of a currency union in the Middle East and Central Asia?
- ( J. Berengaut; K. Elborgh-Woytek / International Monetary Fund , 2006)
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Against the background of the theory of optimum currency areas, this paper analyses possible scenarios for establishing a currency union (CU) in the Middle East and Central Asia region.
The paper ou...
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