Fixed or Floating Exchange Regimes : Does it Matter for Inflation? /

This paper reviews recent experience with the choice of floating or fixed ('anchor') exchange regimes in industrial and developing countries. It concludes that desirable differences between the two sets of regimes have narrowed, owing to the useful operational role of exchange rate margins...

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Hovedforfatter: Quirk, Peter
Format: Tidsskrift
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1994.
Serier:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1994/134
Online adgang:Full text available on IMF
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