Friedman Redux : External Adjustment and Exchange Rate Flexibility /

Milton Friedman argued that flexible exchange rates would facilitate external adjustment. Recent studies find surprisingly little robust evidence that they do. We argue that this is because they use composite (or aggregate) exchange rate regime classifications, which often mask very heterogeneous bi...

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1. Verfasser: Ghosh, Atish
Weitere Verfasser: Qureshi, Mahvash, Tsangarides, Charalambos
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/146
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF
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