The Interest Rate-Exchange Rate Nexus in the Asian Crisis Countries /

Sharp exchange rate depreciations in the East Asian crisis countries (Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand) raised doubts about the efficacy of increasing interest rates to defend the currency. Using a standard monetary model of exchange rate determination, this paper shows that tighter monetary policy wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ghosh, Atish
Other Authors: Basurto, Gabriela
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2000.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2000/019
Online Access:Full text available on IMF