Currency Boards, Credibility, and Macroeconomic Behavior /

Currency boards operate differently from standard pegs. The former exhibit greater currency stability and lower transaction costs, inflation, and nominal interest rates, but are limited in their use of devaluation. We extend Drazen and Masson's (1994) signaling model to consider the choice betw...

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Autor Principal: Sy, Amadou
Outros autores: Rivera-Batiz, Luis
Formato: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/097
Acceso en liña:Full text available on IMF