Soft Exchange Rate Bands and Speculative Attacks : Theory, and Evidence from the ERM since August 1993 /

We present a model of a 'soft' exchange rate target zone and interpret it as a stylized description of the post-August 1993 ERM. Our central bank targets a moving average of the current and past exchange rates, rather than the exchange rate's current level, thus allowing the rate to m...

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1. Verfasser: Bartolini, Leonardo
Weitere Verfasser: Prati, Alessandro
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/156
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF