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Fixed or Flexible? Getting the Exchange Rate Right in the 1990s »
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s): Jahangir Aziz , and Francesco Caramazza
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 April 1998
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781455220038.051
ISBN: 9781455220038
Keywords: exchange rate, capital inflows, exchange rates, flexible exchange rate, exchange rate arrangements
This paper examines the recent evolution of exchange rate policies in the developing world. It looks at why so many countries have made a transition from fixed or "pegged" exchange rates to "managed floating" curre...

Fixed or Flexible : Getting the Exchange Rate Right in the 1990s »
Series: Economic Issues
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 April 1998
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756923.051
ISBN: 9781557756923
Keywords: exchange rate, capital inflows, exchange rates, flexible exchange rate, exchange rate arrangements
This paper examines the recent evolution of exchange rate policies inthe developing world. It looks at why so many countries have made a transition from fixed or "pegged" exchange rates to "managed floating"currenc...

Coordinating Stabilization and Structural Reform : Proceedings of the Seminar Coordination of Structural Reform and Macroeconomic Stabilization, Washington, D.C., June 17-26, 1993 »
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 September 1994
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557754301.071
ISBN: 9781557754301
Keywords: interest, exchange rate, inflation, prices, restructuring
This seminar volume, edited by Richard C. Barth, Alan R. Roe, and Chorng-Huey Wong, presents an overview of the links between structural and macroeconomic policies that were addressed in an IMF Institute seminar he...

Deepening Structural Reform in Africa : Lessons from East Asia »
Series: Books
Author(s): Laura Wallace
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 13 May 1997
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557756343.071
ISBN: 9781557756343
Keywords: structural adjustment, foreign exchange, banking, privatization, central bank
As Africa looks for ways to deepen and accelerate the economic reform process, what lessons can East Asia offer? this book edited by Laura Wallace, records the proceedings of a seminar that involved a dynamic excha...

International Monetary Fund Annual Report 2007 : Making the Global Economy Work for All »
Series: Annual Report of the Executive Board
Author(s): International Monetary Fund
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 17 October 2007
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781589066632.011
ISBN: 9781589066632
Keywords: balance of payments, debt relief, financial sector, expenditures, exchange rate
The Annual Report 2007 to the Board of Governors reviews the IMF's activities and policies during the financial year (May 1, 2006, through April 30, 2007). This year's Report has been streamlined and translated int...

External Performance in Low-Income Countries »
Series: Occasional Papers
Author(s): Alessandro Prati , Luca Ricci , Lone Engbo Christiansen , Stephen Tokarick , and Thierry Tressel
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 March 2011
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781616350536.084
ISBN: 9781616350536
Keywords: External sector, Low-income developing countries, Real effective exchange rates, exchange rate, current account, real exchange rate, foreign assets, net foreign assets
Assessments of exchange rate misalignments and external imbalances for low-income countries are challenging because methodologies developed for advanced and emerging economies cannot be automatically applied to poo...

Mundell-Fleming Lecture: Exchange Rate Systems, Surveillance, and Advice »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 3
Volume: 55
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 05 August 2008
ISBN: 9781589067240
Keywords: exchange rate, exchange rate regimes, monetary fund, foreign exchange, inflation
This special issue on exchange rates is drawn from the Eighth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference held at the International Monetary Fund in Washington in November 2007. The Mundell-Fleming Lecture by Stanley...

Estimation of De Facto Exchange Rate Regimes: Synthesis of the Techniques for Inferring Flexibility and Basket Weights »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 3
Volume: 55
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 05 August 2008
ISBN: 9781589067240
Keywords: exchange rate, exchange rate regimes, monetary fund, foreign exchange, inflation
This special issue on exchange rates is drawn from the Eighth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference held at the International Monetary Fund in Washington in November 2007. The Mundell-Fleming Lecture by Stanley...

Exchange Rate Policy Attitudes: Direct Evidence from Survey Data »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 3
Volume: 55
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 05 August 2008
ISBN: 9781589067240
Keywords: exchange rate, exchange rate regimes, monetary fund, foreign exchange, inflation
This special issue on exchange rates is drawn from the Eighth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference held at the International Monetary Fund in Washington in November 2007. The Mundell-Fleming Lecture by Stanley...

Fear of Declaring: Do Markets Care What Countries Say About Their Exchange Rate Policies? »
Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 3
Volume: 55
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s): International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 05 August 2008
ISBN: 9781589067240
Keywords: exchange rate, exchange rate regimes, monetary fund, foreign exchange, inflation
This special issue on exchange rates is drawn from the Eighth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference held at the International Monetary Fund in Washington in November 2007. The Mundell-Fleming Lecture by Stanley...