Currency Crises and Foreign Reserves : A Simple Model /
This paper addresses the important question of how far a government will run down its stock of foreign reserves in a defense of a fixed exchange rate. An optimizing model of currency crisis is presented in which the decision of whether or not to borrow in a defense of a peg is explicitly analyzed. T...
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| Formato: | Periódico |
| Idioma: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2001.
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| Colecção: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2001/018 |
| Acesso em linha: | Full text available on IMF |
| Resumo: | This paper addresses the important question of how far a government will run down its stock of foreign reserves in a defense of a fixed exchange rate. An optimizing model of currency crisis is presented in which the decision of whether or not to borrow in a defense of a peg is explicitly analyzed. The threshold level of reserves is then determined endogenously and shown to be a function of fundamental economic variables. The analysis also demonstrates how an increase in the level of reserves, a credit-rating upgrade, or the imposition of capital controls can remove the multiplicity of equilibria. |
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| Descrição Física: | 1 online resource (24 pages) |
| Formato: | Mode of access: Internet |
| ISSN: | 1018-5941 |
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