Download or read book Aspects of the Optimal Management of Exchange Rates written by Jacob A. Frenkel and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes aspects of the economics of the optimal management of exchange rates. It shows that the choice of the optimal exchange rate regime depends on the nature and the origin of the stochastic shocks that affect the economy. Generally, the higher is the variance of real shocks which affect the supply of goods, the larger becomes the desirability of fixity of exchange rates. The rationale for that implication is that the balance of payments serves as a shock absorber which mitigates the effect of real shocks on consumption. The importance of this factor diminishes the larger is the economy's access to world capital markets. On the other hand, the desirability of exchange rate flexibility increases the larger are the variances of the shocks to the demand for money, to the supply of money, to foreign prices and to purchasing power parities. All of these shocks exert a similar effect and their sum is referred to as the "effective monetary shock." It is also shown that the desirability of exchange rate flexibility increases the larger is the propensity to save out of transitory income. When the analysis is extended to an economy which produces traded and non-traded goods it is shown that the desirability of exchange rate flexibility diminishes the higher is the share of non-traded goods relative to traded goods and the lower are the elasticities of demand and supply of the two goods

Download or read book Exchange Rate Economics written by Peter Isard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-28 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and evaluates the literature on exchange rate economics. It provides a wide-ranging survey, with background on the history of international monetary regimes and the institutional characteristics of foreign exchange markets, an overview of the development of conceptual and empirical models of exchange rate behavior, and perspectives on the key issues that policymakers confront in deciding whether, and how, to try to stabilize exchange rates. The treatment of most topics is reasonably compact, with extensive references to the literature for those desiring to pursue individual topics further. The level of exposition is relatively easy to comprehend; the historical and institutional material (part I) and the discussion of policy issues (part III) contain no equations or technical notation, while the chapters on models of exchange rate behavior (part II) are written at a level intelligible to first-year graduate students or advanced undergraduates. The book will enlighten both students and policymakers, and should also serve as a valuable reference for many research economists.

Download or read book Fundamental Determinants of Exchange Rates written by Jerome L. Stein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book greatly enhances our understanding of the behavior of real exchange rates. It provides an elegant model based on a solid theoretical foundation that links real exchange rates to their fundamental economic determinants and takes proper account of stock and flow considerations. The authors provide a masterful account of how changes in productivity and thrift affect the real exchange rate, and show that the long-run impact depends crucially on whether the change reflects the former fundamental (investment) or the latter (consumption). The empirical implementation uses state-of-the-art cointegration and error correction methodologies that are eminently well suited to capture the short-run adjustment of the real exchange rate to its medium- to long-run equilibrium value. The empirical results are extremely encouraging, as the economic fundamentals identified by the authors can explain a substantial part of the movement in the real exchange rate of a number of countries."--Peter Clark, International Monetary Fund

Download or read book Optimal and Sustainable Exchange Rate Regimes written by Masahiro Kawai and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1992-11-01 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines the question of how to design an optimal and sustainable exchange rate regime in a world economy of two interdependent countries. It develops a Barro-Gordon type two-country model and compares noncooperative equilibria under different assumptions of monetary policy credibility and different exchange rate regimes. Using a two-stage game approach to the strategic choice of policy instruments, it identifies optimal (in a Pare to sense) and sustainable (self-enforcing) exchange rate regimes. The theoretical results indicate that the choice of such regimes depends fundamentally on the credibility of monetary policy commitments by the two countries’ authorities. The nature of shocks to the economies and the substitutability between goods produced in the two countries also play some role. International coordination on instrument choice is necessary to design optimal and sustainable exchange rate regimes.

Download or read book The Choice of an Optimal Exchange Rate System for a Small Country written by Iltae Son and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Optimal Exchange Rate Policy written by Charles Engel and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper examines optimal exchange-rate policy in two-country sticky-price general equilibrium models in which households and firms optimize over an infinite horizon in an environment of uncertainty. The models are in the vein of the new open-economy macroeconomics' as exemplified by Obstfeld and Rogoff (1995, 1998, 2000). The conditions under which fixed or floating exchange rates yield higher welfare depend on the exact nature of price stickiness and on the degree of risk-sharing opportunities. This paper presents some preliminary empirical evidence on the behavior of consumer prices in Mexico that suggests failures of the law of one price are important. The evidence on price setting and risk-sharing opportunities is not refined enough to make definitive conclusions about the optimal exchange-rate regime for that country.

Download or read book The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas and Exchange rate Flexibility written by Edward Tower and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exchange Rate Management Theory and Evidence written by Keith Pilbeam and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-06-18 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the economic justification for foreign exchange market intervention, the potential for such intervention to stabilize an economy and the distinction between sterilized and non-sterilized intervention.

Download or read book Japanese Effective Exchange Rates and Determinants written by Jun Nagayasu and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes the behavior of the Japanese effective exchange rates during the recent floating rate period by estimating the long-run rates from several exchange rate models. Therefore, the degree and the duration of the misalignment of the exchange rates can be observed by comparing the actual exchange rates with our estimated long-run rates. Furthermore, this paper examines questions related to the potential problems in estimating long-run exchange rate levels; in particular, it discusses the sensitivity of long-run rates to underlying economic theories and problems posed by the definition of the variables.2

Download or read book Optimal Exchange Rate Flexibility in an Economy with Intersectoral Rigidities and Nontraded Goods written by Fernando Restoy and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En este trabajo se propone un modelo estocastico de dos sectores, que puede ser utilizado para comparar las propiedades estabilizadoras de los distintos regimenes cambiarios. Del analisis se obtienen las siguientes conclusiones: Si la autoridad monetaria tiene mas informacion que los agentes privados, un regimen de tipo de cambio flexible estabiliza el producto, tanto en el sector de bienes comerciados como en el de no comerciados. Por el contrario, si la autoridad monetaria no posee informacion superior, el regimen optimo depende de magnitudes relativas de las perturbaciones nacionales y extranjeras, y de la importancia de los shocks sectoriales. Un regimen de tipo de cambio fijo minimiza la desviacion del output de equilibrio sobre el de informacion completa en el sector de comerciados, pero desestabiliza el sector protegido. En general, se encuentra que el regimen optimo se corresponde con una regla cambiaria intermedia entre el tipo de cambio fijo puro y el tipo de cambio completamente flexible. (frl) (ars) (mac).

Download or read book Exchange Rate Dynamics written by Jean-Olivier Hairault and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book builds upon the seminal work by Obsfeld and Rogoff, Foundations of International Macroeconomics and provides a coherent and modern framework for thinking about exchange rate dynamics.

Download or read book Optimum Currency Areas written by Mr.Leonardo Leiderman and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1997-06-17 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Mundell's pioneering theory of optimum currency areas is revisited, with experts from the IMF, the BIS, the European Investment Bank, academia, European think tanks, and the Bank of Israel looking at its current practical applications, especially in the context of the forthcoming European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Robert Mundell himself offers an update to help in assessing the implications and consequences of EMU.

Download or read book Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy written by Reuven Glick and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Optimal Exchange Rate Policy in a Growing Semi open Economy written by Philippe Bacchetta and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Choosing an Exchange Rate Regime written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1990-09-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers, edited by Victor Argy and Paul De Grauwe, examines issues surrounding the choice of exchange rate regime in smaller industrial countries. It contains a comprehensive summary by Jacques J. Polak.

Download or read book Optimal Foreign Exchange Speculation and the Determination of Exchange Rates written by Adrian Rodney Pagan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Formal Model of Optimum Currency Areas written by Mr.Tamim Bayoumi and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1994-04-01 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A model of optimum currency areas is presented using a general equilibrium model with regionally differentiated goods. The choice of a currency union depends upon the size of the underlying disturbances, the correlation between these disturbances, the costs of transactions across currencies, factor mobility across regions, and the interrelationships between demand for different goods. It is found that, while a currency union can raise the welfare of the regions within the union, it unambiguously lowers welfare for those outside the union.