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Book A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas

Download or read book A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas written by Mr.Robert P. Flood and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1992-05-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with Friedman and Mundell the academic literature has conducted a high level debate concerning the design of cross-country monetary arrangements. That debate has become very complex and the data requirements necessary for appropriate application of the principles developed are far beyond the means of the very nations for which the principles might be valuable. In this paper we return to the simplicity of the early arguments and formalize them in a way that may be helpful for currency area decisions where little is known about economic structure.

Book Optimum Currency Areas

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.

Book Optimum currency area  Is a fixed exchange rate regime more suitable than a flexible one

Download or read book Optimum currency area Is a fixed exchange rate regime more suitable than a flexible one written by Sofia Roth and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-06-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject Economics - Macro-economics, general, , language: English, abstract: This term paper outlines the theory of Optimum Currency Area (OCA), also known as an Optimal Currency Region (OCR). It also deals with the question under which conditions it is more suitable to have a fixed exchange rate regime or a flexible exchange rates regime in an OCA. The theory of OCA was developed in the early 1960s and deals with mixed, complicated issues of international macroeconomics and "emerged from the debate on the advantages and disadvantages of fixed versus flexible exchange rate regimes". Moreover the theory "attempts to answer the question under which circumstances it is beneficiary for a country or region to constitute a common currency area with other countries or region". This question was analyzed and contributed by the pioneered work of Mundell (1961). Other contributors at the beginning of this theory were McKinnon (1962) and Kenen (1969). Their cognition were based on founding’s by Friedman (1953) and Meade (1957).

Book The Economics of Common Currencies

Download or read book The Economics of Common Currencies written by Harry G. Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering together the papers presented at the Madrid Conference on Optimum Currency Areas in 1970 this volume represents one of the first complete surveys of the theory and policy implication of monetary integration. The book discusses: the economics of fixed exchange rates relevant to monetary relations within an integrated monetary area the evolution of economic doctrine and a survey of optimum currency area theory problems of policy co-ordination within a currency area relevance of the monetary-fiscal policy mix problems of monetary union in developing countries the book predicted the establishment of an European currency but presented the case for greater flexibility of exchange rates as an alternative to currency unification.

Book A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas

Download or read book A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas written by Robert A. Mundell and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The International Disequilibrium System

Download or read book The International Disequilibrium System written by Robert Alexander Mundell and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Exchange Rate Economics

Download or read book Exchange Rate Economics written by Ronald MacDonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ''In summary, the book is valuable as a textbook both at the advanced undergraduate level and at the graduate level. It is also very useful for the economist who wants to be brought up-to-date on theoretical and empirical research on exchange rate behaviour.'' ""Journal of International Economics""

Book Handbook of the History of Money and Currency

Download or read book Handbook of the History of Money and Currency written by Stefano Battilossi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2020-03-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art research in the field of monetary and financial history. The authors comprise different generations of leading scholars from universities worldwide. Thanks to its unrivaled breadth both in time (from antiquity to the present) and geographical coverage (from Europe to the Americas and Asia), the volume is set to become a key reference for historians, economists, and social scientists with an interest in the subject. The handbook reflects the existing variety of scholarly approaches in the field, from theoretically driven macroeconomic history to the political economy of monetary institutions and the historical evolution of monetary policies. Its thematic sections cover a wide range of topics, including the historical origins of money; money, coinage, and the state; trade, money markets, and international currencies; money and metals; monetary experiments; Asian monetary systems; exchange rate regimes; monetary integration; central banking and monetary policy; and aggregate price shocks.

Book A Model of an Optimum Currency Area

Download or read book A Model of an Optimum Currency Area written by Luca Antonio Ricci and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper investigates the circumstances under which it is beneficial to participate in a currency area. A two-country monetary model of trade with nominal rigidities encompasses the real and monetary arguments suggested by the optimum currency area literature: correlation of real shocks, international factor mobility, fiscal adjustment, openness, difference in national inflationary biases, correlation of monetary shocks, and benefits of a single currency. The effect of openness on the net benefits is ambiguous, contrary to the usual argument that more open economies are better candidates for a currency area. Countries do not necessarily agree on whether a given currency union should be created.

Book Too Sensational

Download or read book Too Sensational written by W. Max Corden and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2004-08-20 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the literature on exchange rate regimes has focused on the developed countries. Since the recent crises in emerging markets, however, attention has shifted to the choice of exchange rate regimes for developing countries, especially those that are more integrated into the world capital markets. In Too Sensational, W. Max Corden presents a systematic and accessible overview of the choice of exchange rate regimes. Reviewing many types of regimes, he shows how the choice of an exchange rate regime is related to both fiscal policy and trade policy. Building on the theory of optimum currency areas, Corden develops an analytic framework of three approaches (nominal anchor, real targets, and exchange rate stability) and three polar exchange rate regimes (absolutely fixed, pure floating, and fixed but adjustable). He considers all other regimes to be mixtures of two or three of the polar regimes. Beginning with theory and later turning to case studies of countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Corden focuses on how economies react to negative and positive shocks under various exchange rate regimes. He examines in particular the Asian and Latin American currency crises of the 1990s. He concludes that although "too sensational" crises have discredited fixed but adjustable regimes, the extremes of absolutely fixed regimes or pure floating regimes need not be chosen.

Book Evolution and Performance of Exchange Rate Regimes

Download or read book Evolution and Performance of Exchange Rate Regimes written by Mr.Kenneth Rogoff and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using recent advances in the classification of exchange rate regimes, this paper finds no support for the popular bipolar view that countries will tend over time to move to the polar extremes of free float or rigid peg. Rather, intermediate regimes have shown remarkable durability. The analysis suggests that as economies mature, the value of exchange rate flexibility rises. For countries at a relatively early stage of financial development and integration, fixed or relatively rigid regimes appear to offer some anti-inflation credibility gain without compromising growth objectives. As countries develop economically and institutionally, there appear to be considerable benefits to more flexible regimes. For developed countries that are not in a currency union, relatively flexible exchange rate regimes appear to offer higher growth without any cost in credibility.

Book Exchange Rates Under the East Asian Dollar Standard

Download or read book Exchange Rates Under the East Asian Dollar Standard written by Ronald I. McKinnon and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The policy dilemmas inherent in using the US dollar as the key currency for stabilizing exchange rates in East Asia.

Book Exchange Rates and Global Financial Policies

Download or read book Exchange Rates and Global Financial Policies written by Paul De Grauwe and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exchange Rates and Global Financial Policies brings together research and work done by world-class economist Paul De Grauwe over the past two decades. Drawing inspiration from behavioural finance literature, De Grauwe covers topics such as exchange rate economics, monetary integration (with particular attention on the Eurozone), and international macroeconomics. His work is categorised across three parts. The first part develops new theoretical and empirical approaches to exchange rate modelling. The second part features a collection of papers on the theory and empirical analysis of monetary unions. The final part contains criticism of mainstream macroeconomic models as well as proposed alternative modelling approaches. Contents:Exchange Rate Economics:Chaos in the Dornbusch Model of the Exchange Rate (Paul De Grauwe and Hans Dewachter)Heterogeneity of Agents, Transactions Costs and the Exchange Rate (Paul De Grauwe and Marianna Grimaldi)Exchange Rate Puzzles: A Tale of Switching Attractors (Paul De Grauwe and Marianna Grimaldi)Exchange Rates in Search of Fundamentals: The Case of the Euro–Dollar Rate (Paul De Grauwe)Exchange Rates and Fundamentals: A Non-Linear Relationship? (Paul De Grauwe and Isabel Vansteenkiste)The Impact of FX Central Bank Intervention in a Noise Trading Framework (Michel Beine, Paul De Grauwe and Marianna Grimaldi)Monetary Integration:Conditions for Monetary Integration: A Geometric Interpretation (Paul De Grauwe)Is Europe an Optimum Currency Area? Evidence from Regional Data (Paul De Grauwe and Wim Vanhaverbeke)Setting Conversion Rates for the Third Stage of EMU (Paul De Grauwe and Luigi Spaventa)The Euro and Financial Crises (Paul De Grauwe)What have We Learnt About Monetary Integration Since the Maastricht Treaty? (Paul De Grauwe)The Governance of a Fragile Eurozone (Paul De Grauwe)Do Asymmetries Matter for European Monetary Policy? (Yunus Aksoy, Paul De Grauwe and Hans Dewachter)Macroeconomics And Monetary Policy:Is Inflation always and Everywhere a Monetary Phenomenon? (Paul De Grauwe and Magdalena Polan)Monetary Policy and the Real Economy (Paul De Grauwe and Cláudia Costa Storti)Lessons from the Banking Crisis: A Return to Narrow Banking (Paul De Grauwe)The Scientific Foundation of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) Models (Paul De Grauwe)Animal Spirits and Monetary Policy (Paul De Grauwe)Booms and Busts in Economic Activity: A Behavioral Explanation (Paul De Grauwe) Readership: Graduate students and researchers in the fields of international economics and international finance. Keywords:Exchange Rate;Financial Policies;Turbulence;Exchange Market;Motenary Union;Macroeconomics;Economic Models;Behaviorial Economics;Monetary Integration;Euro;Financial Crisis;European Monetary Policy;Dynamic Stochastic General EquilibriumauthorKey Features:Cover a wide range of issues in international macroeconomics and international financeUse insights of behavioral economics making it possible to better understand macroeconomic dynamics

Book Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Management In Less Developed Countries

Download or read book Inflation Targeting and Exchange Rate Management In Less Developed Countries written by Mr. Marco Airaudo and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We analyze coordination of monetary and exchange rate policy in a two-sector model of a small open economy featuring imperfect substitution between domestic and foreign financial assets. Our central finding is that management of the exchange rate greatly enhances the efficacy of inflation targeting. In a flexible exchange rate system, inflation targeting incurs a high risk of indeterminacy where macroeconomic fluctuations can be driven by self-fulfilling expectations. Moreover, small inflation shocks may escalate into much larger increases in inflation ex post. Both problems disappear when the central bank leans heavily against the wind in a managed float.

Book Monetary Integration

    Book Details:
  • Author : Warner Max Corden
  • Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : International Finance Section, Princeton University
  • Release : 1972
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 58 pages

Download or read book Monetary Integration written by Warner Max Corden and published by Princeton, N.J. : International Finance Section, Princeton University. This book was released on 1972 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Currency Politics

Download or read book Currency Politics written by Jeffry A. Frieden and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-28 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics surrounding exchange rate policies in the global economy The exchange rate is the most important price in any economy, since it affects all other prices. Exchange rates are set, either directly or indirectly, by government policy. Exchange rates are also central to the global economy, for they profoundly influence all international economic activity. Despite the critical role of exchange rate policy, there are few definitive explanations of why governments choose the currency policies they do. Filled with in-depth cases and examples, Currency Politics presents a comprehensive analysis of the politics surrounding exchange rates. Identifying the motivations for currency policy preferences on the part of industries seeking to influence politicians, Jeffry Frieden shows how each industry's characteristics—including its exposure to currency risk and the price effects of exchange rate movements—determine those preferences. Frieden evaluates the accuracy of his theoretical arguments in a variety of historical and geographical settings: he looks at the politics of the gold standard, particularly in the United States, and he examines the political economy of European monetary integration. He also analyzes the politics of Latin American currency policy over the past forty years, and focuses on the daunting currency crises that have frequently debilitated Latin American nations, including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil. With an ambitious mix of narrative and statistical investigation, Currency Politics clarifies the political and economic determinants of exchange rate policies.