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    Mexican peso crisis: the foreseeable and the surprise (Brookings)

    Brookings Institution, 1995
    The financial debacle that followed the Mexican devaluation in December 1994 left many analysts, investors and observers bewildered by its magnitude. This paper argues that the causes of the devaluation are quite different from the causes of the crisis, so different that the financial crisis was partly caused by the devaluation itself.
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    Currency / exchange rates converter (Olsen and Associates/OANDA)

    Olsen and Associates, 1999
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    The Real Exchange Rate in India: Determinants and Targeting ( Patel / Srivastava / CEP)

    Centre for Economic Performance, London, 1997
    The paper studies the behaviour of the real exhange rate (RER) in India. The first part investigates the role of important macroeconomic (behaviour and policy) variables in explaining the movement of the RER. It is found that the investment-gdp ratio, the overall fiscal deficit of the public sector and the nominal exchange rate are important explanatory variables.
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    Fiscal Imbalances, Capital Inflows, and the Real Exchange Rate: The Case of Turkey

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    This paper examines the links between fiscal policy, uncovered interest rate differentials, the real exchange rate, and capital inflows in Turkey since the late 1980s. The first part reviews recent macroeconomic developments in Turkey. It shows that capital inflows coincided with a period of significant deterioration in fiscal balances, high interest rates, and an appreciating real exchange rate.
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    What Determines Real Exchange Rates? The Long and Short of It

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    Recently, there has been a revival of interest in modeling the long-run behavior of nominal bilateral exchange rates using fundamentals such as relative prices.
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    Foreign Exchange Risk Premium: Does Fiscal Policy Matter? Evidence from Italian Data

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    Economists and policymakers have long been interested in the effects of fiscal policies on exchange rates. In particular, for countries with large fiscal imbalances, it is often contended that fiscal policy may affect exchange rates through a .risk premium channel,.
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    External Stability Under Alternative Nominal Exchange Rate Anchors: An Application to the GCC Countries

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    All member countries of the GCC effectively peg their currencies to the U.S. dollar.* This policy has been guided by the broad objectives of minimizing exchange risks for the private sector and ensuring stable exchange rates among the GCC member countries.
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    The Exchange Rate in a Dynamic-Optimizing Current Account Model with Nominal Rigidities: A Quantitative Investigation

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    During the last 15 years, much effort was devoted to developing open-economy business cycle models with explicit microfoundations. With rare exceptions (discussed below), that literature considered models without money or in which money is neutral (or almost neutral), with prices and wages assumed fully flexible.
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    Exchange Rate Regimes and Location

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    This paper investigates the effects of fixed versus flexible exchange rate regimes on the location choices of firms and on the degree of specialization of countries. In a two-country two-differentiated-goods monetary model, demand, supply, and monetary (and exchange rate) shocks arise after wages are set and prices are optimally chosen.
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    Characteristics of the Euro, the Demand for Reserves, and Policy Coordination Under EMU

    International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
    The euro.s economic base, as measured by the combined GDP of the currency area, will rival that of the dollar. Despite a monetary policy oriented toward price stability and backed by restrictive fiscal policies, the euro will face considerable initial uncertainties.

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