scholarly journals Capital Controls or Real Exchange Rate Policy? A Pecuniary Externality Perspective

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Benigno ◽  
Huigang Chen ◽  
Alessandro Rebucci ◽  
Christopher Otrok ◽  
Eric Young
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Real Exchange Rate ◽  
Capital Controls ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Pecuniary Externality ◽  
Rate Policy

scholarly journals Capital Controls or Exchange Rate Policy? A Pecuniary Externality Perspective

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Benigno ◽  
Christopher Otrok ◽  
Alessandro Rebucci ◽  
Eric R. Young ◽  
Huigang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Capital Controls ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Pecuniary Externality ◽  
Rate Policy

scholarly journals Capital Controls or Exchange Rate Policy? A Pecuniary Externality Perspective

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Benigno ◽  
Huigang Chen ◽  
Christopher Otrok ◽  
Alessandro Rebucci ◽  
Eric R. Young
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Capital Controls ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Pecuniary Externality ◽  
Rate Policy

The real equilibrium exchange rate in a commodity­exporting economy: the experience of Azerbaijan

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Vusal Gasimli ◽  
Vusala Jafarova
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Real Exchange Rate ◽  
Oil Prices ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Current Account Balance ◽  
Equilibrium Exchange Rate ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Equilibrium Exchange ◽  
Rate Policy ◽  
Relative Productivity

The case of Azerbaijan serves to study the adequacy of exchange-rate policy in a resource-rich economy. This paper analyses the behavior of Azerbaijan’s external accounts over the past twenty years. Declining oil prices made an existing exchange-rate peg unsustainable and led to a large devaluation in 2015. Since then, the current account balance has improved, but by less than expected. We use the EBA-Lite method to derive regression-based estimates of the equilibrium real exchange rate, and relate misalignments to measures of “policy gaps”. Our findings suggest that only a few years after the devaluation, Azerbaijan’s currency has once more become overvalued. Moreover, the equilibrium real exchange rate is volatile and hardly compatible with a long-run exchange rate peg. Exchange rate policy should try to accommodate shifts in the fundamental determinants such as relative productivity and real oil prices.

MANAGING FLEXIBILITY: JAPANESE EXCHANGE RATE POLICY, 1971–2007

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (03) ◽  
pp. 335-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHINJI TAKAGI
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Capital Controls ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Foreign Exchange Intervention ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Capital Account Convertibility ◽  
Rate Policy ◽  
Account Convertibility ◽  
Leaning Against The Wind

The paper reviews Japan's exchange rate policy from the end of the Bretton Woods era to the present. The Japanese authorities used various tools to manage the yen–dollar exchange rate over much of this period. The most dominant was official foreign exchange intervention, which in most instances took the form of "leaning against the wind". Capital controls were also used but, with full capital account convertibility, ceased to exist as an instrument of exchange rate policy by the mid-1980s. Following the post-Plaza appreciation of the yen, the authorities eased monetary policy to arrest the appreciating pressure. The possible role of exchange rate policy in the great asset inflation that followed, however, remains unanswered. More recently, exchange rate policy during the period of prolonged stagnation and fragile recovery was made subordinate to the overall stance of macroeconomic policy. In this regard, particularly striking in terms of scale and frequency was the "great intervention" of 2003–2004. Equally striking has been the total absence of official intervention since. It would require a renewed substantial volatility of the yen to know whether this indeed marks a permanent shift in Japan's exchange rate policy.

scholarly journals Relationships between exchange rate regime, real exchange rate volatility and currency structure of government bonds in emerging markets

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22
Author(s):  
Viktar Dudzich
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Emerging Markets ◽  
Real Exchange Rate ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Exchange Rate Regime ◽  
Exchange Rate Volatility ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Original Sin ◽  
Rate Policy ◽  
Real Exchange Rate Volatility

AbstractPublic foreign currency borrowing is a common problem of emerging markets. Scholars named it the original sin of foreign debt. It has a proven negative influence on economic growth and development, undermining financial stability, and increasing the probability of monetary crises. The roots of the original sin often lay in emerging markets’ institutional underdevelopment, with low-quality monetary policy, inappropriate exchange rate regime choice, and exchange rate mismanagement being stated among the most important causes. This paper evaluates the influence of the exchange rate policy on the emission of foreign currency sovereign bonds in emerging markets. The relationship is estimated using panel data and GMM approach, with exchange rate regime type (both de jure and de facto) and real exchange rate volatility serving as explanatory variables. The findings reveal that fixed exchange rate regime and high real exchange rate volatility is promoting the foreign currency borrowing. Thus countries that want to reduce the burden of the original sin should lean towards a more flexible exchange rate policy while maintaining their real exchange rate stable.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document