How Can Fiscal Policy Help Avert Currency Crises? /

An overview of crisis episodes in emerging-market economies with a pegged exchange rate regime in the 1990s suggests that sizable explicit or implicit government deficits, or market perceptions of lack of fiscal sustainability, render these economies vulnerable to currency crises under high capital...

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Glavni avtor: Kopits, George
Format: Revija
Jezik:English
Izdano: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Serija:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/185
Online dostop:Full text available on IMF
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