scholarly journals Policy Responses to Aid Surges in Countries with Limited International Capital Mobility: The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime

2015 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 116-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Berg ◽  
Rafael Portillo ◽  
Luis-Felipe Zanna
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Capital Mobility ◽  
Exchange Rate Regime ◽  
International Capital ◽  
International Capital Mobility ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
The Exchange Rate

scholarly journals Volatilité des chocs et degré de flexibilité du taux de change

2007 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Pierre Allegret ◽  
Mohamed Ayadi ◽  
Leila Haouaoui
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Capital Mobility ◽  
Financial Integration ◽  
Exchange Rate Regime ◽  
Exchange Rate Regimes ◽  
International Capital Mobility ◽  
International Financial Integration ◽  
The Exchange Rate ◽  
Almost All

During the 90s emerging markets have been hit by recurrent exchange rate crises. Almost all these countries shared a common characteristic: they adopted in previous years soft pegs, the so-called intermediate exchange rate regimes. International institutions and academic economists interpreted this intrinsic fragility of soft pegs as a consequence of the increasing international capital mobility. From this perspective, the exchange-rate regime is seen as constrained by the monetary policy trilemma, which imposes a stark trade-off among exchange stability, monetary independence, and capital market openness. Soft pegs seem incompatible with international financial integration. As a result, a new consensus appeared: the choice of domestic authorities is limited to corner solutions: hard pegs on the one side; independent floating on the other side. This paper proposes a contribution to the analysis of exchange rate regimes choice by emerging markets. The new consensus is questioned by considering that emerging countries are confronted not in the choice between extreme solutions, but rather with the choice of the degree of fixity- or the degree of flexibility- of the exchange rate.

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