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    On the relationship between exchange rates and interest rates: evidence from the Southern Cone

    Institute of Economics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile / Instituto de Economia, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2004
    A key feature of fixed exchange rate systems, under which the value of a country’s currency is fixed with regard to some other currency or currencies (such as the US dollar and/or the euro), is that exchange rate volatility tends to be lower than under flexible systems.
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    Does monetary union make sense for Brazil and Argentina?

    Asociación Argentina de Economía Política, Buenos Aires, 2002
    The collapse of the convertibility regime in Argentina raised the issue of whether the MERCOSUR countries should form a monetary union.
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    Currency substitution in a transitional economy with an application to the Czech Republic

    University of Economics, Prague,, Czech Republic, 2004
    Currency substitution (the substitution of deposits in the domestic currency by deposits in foreign currency) appears to be an important issue affecting the design of monetary policy, especially in transition economies.
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    An analysis of pegged exchange rate regime between Bhutan and India

    Centre for Bhutan Studies, Bhutan, 2003
    This paper investigates whether the pegged exchange rate between the Bhutanese and Indian currencies is the best system for Bhutan’s economy. Since the introduction of the Bhutanese Ngultrum in 1974 it has been pegged at par with the Indian Rupee; it does not have independent exchange rates with other currencies, and both Rupees and Ngultrums are accepted as legal tender in Bhutan.
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    Does a free trade area favor an optimum currency area?: the case of Morocco and the European Union

    Institut National de Statistique et d'Economie Appliquée, Morocco, 2003
    The purpose of this paper is to investigate simultaneously the potential effects of European Union's Association Agreement with Morocco and the adoption of the Euro as a single currency on exchange rate regime of Moroccan Dirham. The paper starts by presenting briefly the Free Trade Area (FTA) agreement between Morocco and the EU.
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    Do candidate countries fit the optimum-currency-area criteria?

    Center for Social and Economic Research, Poland, 2003
    Some CEE and Baltic countries, Cyprus and Malta join the EU in 2004 and are consequently expected to also join the European Monetary Union (EMU), but do they fulfil the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criteria?
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    On the influence of the real exchange rate on different sectors of the Russian economy

    Economic Expert Group, Russian Federation, 2003
    The full text of this paper is in Russian language only.The paper explores the influence of the strengthening of the rouble on industrial output and looks at the impact of the exogenous factors which influence changing exchange rates.Within the Russian industrial sector, the authors identify three main categories of response to the strengthening of the real exchange rate:losers: whic
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    Are GCC Countries Ready for Currency Union?

    Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2002
    The Economic Agreement adopted by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in November 1981 paved the way for full economic integration, including Currency Union (CU). CU involves monetary integration, single currency and a common central bank. This paper tests whether GCC is an optimum currency union area (OCA).
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    Money on the run: capital flight and capitalism in Russia

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2003
    Money has been flowing out of Russia since the first days of liberalisation and the open market. The scale of the bleeding of resources, which might otherwise have financed post-communist investment programmes, is staggering. How much money has been lost? Can anything be done to stop the flow?
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    Indicators and analysis of vulnerability to currency crisis: synthesis report

    Thailand Development Research Institute, 2002
    Only a few years before the onset of the economic crisis in 1997, the East Asian miracle was a model put up for developing countries to follow, so could the East Asian economic crisis have been anticipated? The nature of the East Asian crisis pointed to indicators that could have been good early warning indicators that were not taken seriously enough before the crisis.

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