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Can flexible exchange rates still 'work' in financially open economies?

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: UN New YorkUS 2001Description: ix, 22 pAction note:
  • 4/4/01 JOY_D
Summary: Concentrates on the effect of high capital mobility on the usefulness of different exchange rate regimes, in particular on the relative benefits of exchange rate flexibility. Documents the degree of volatility of the exchange rate in floating regime economies. Examines the sensitivity of interest rates to foreign interest rate shocks. Reports on the contractionary effects of devaluation in emerging economies. Analyses, briefly, two case studies in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil, and comments on the recent performance of these floating exchange economies.
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Concentrates on the effect of high capital mobility on the usefulness of different exchange rate regimes, in particular on the relative benefits of exchange rate flexibility. Documents the degree of volatility of the exchange rate in floating regime economies. Examines the sensitivity of interest rates to foreign interest rate shocks. Reports on the contractionary effects of devaluation in emerging economies. Analyses, briefly, two case studies in Latin America, Mexico and Brazil, and comments on the recent performance of these floating exchange economies.

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