MP A R Munich Personal RePEc Archive Optimal choice of an exchange rate regime: a critical literature review Mariam Ouchen Cadi Ayyad University, Faculty of Economics Marrakesh Morocco, University of Basel 17. January 2013 Online at http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/43907/ MPRA Paper No. 43907, posted 21. January 2013 12:56 UTC Optimal Choice of an Exchange Rate Regime: A Critical Literature Review 1 Mariam OUCHEN Laboratory of innovation, responsibility and sustainable development Cadi Ayyad University
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Impact of Exchange Rate Adjustments and Its Effects on the Balance of Payment The persistency and size of a country’s imbalance payments whether surplus or deficit and the adjustment needed to correct it, depends upon the exchange rate system used. There are two types of exchange rates. 1. Floating or Flexible Exchange Rate, the supply and demand of the currency determines the rate the countries will exchange. No involvement of the Government takes place. Example of floating exchange rate is US Dollar
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the foreign exchange market. The Thai government participated in direct intervention. Direct intervention is a process that the government uses to change the amount of money supply within a country. The government can exchange their home currencies for foreign currencies and invest in the foreign exchange market. For example, if the Thai government wanted to force the baht to depreciate they would exchange the baht for another currency and invest that currency within the foreign exchange market. If
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Introduction This report will examine the world economy in general these issues. In this way, people can learn basic information about the world economy. Also global economy can be seen as the economy of global society and national economies – as economies of local societies, making the global one. It can be evaluated in various kinds of ways. It is inseparable from the geography and ecology of Earth, and is therefore something of a misnomer, since, while definitions and representations of the
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examination of the Purchasing power parity theory with reference to 22 (invluding the U.S) countries is the prime objective of the paper. Consumer price index (CPI), whole sale price/producer price index (PPI), traded price index (TPI) and nominal exchange rate are the variables which were investigated in this study for the period 1957Q1-1998Q4, on the basis of the mean reversion hypothesis. Engle-Granger co-integration and Unit root tests have been employed to both of variables and estimated residuals
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connection and the differences between the official exchange rate market controlled by the CADIVI and the permuta. Discuss the states of equilibrium in each of these markets. Central banks intervene in foreign exchange markets in order to achieve a variety of overall economic objectives, such as controlling inflation, maintaining competitiveness or maintaining financial stability. The precise objectives of policy and how they are reflected in foreign exchange market intervention depend on a number of factors
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DEVELPOMENT ECONOMICS Foreign Exchange regimes and major currencies Supervisor Student Prof. Paolo Sospiro Parapatakam Praveen Reddy MAT: 62282 ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/2014 Contents Introduction 5 Chapter 1 7 1. History of exchange rate regimes: 7 1.1 Gold Standard System
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trade and the increasing mobility of capital internationally are primarily responsible for macroeconomic interdependence. In the early 1930s economists sought to apply price theory to explain the aggregate exports and imports and they viewed the exchange rate as the relative price of commodities traded internationally. However, because of the advent of the development of national accounts they started to treat the trade balance as a component of the national account, not only domestic account. They
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implemented steps toward liberalizing its exchange rate policy; however, a floating Yuan has created uncertainty concerning its impact on China’s economy. While it is likely that allowing the Yuan to appreciate against the US dollar will result in undesirable impacts for China such as deflation, a reduction of foreign direct investment (FDI), and a decline in exports, we believe China will, and should, continue a tempered liberalization of its exchange rate policy. This is necessitated by the potential
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http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/bank/hba57160.000/hba57160_0f.htm EXCHANGE RATE STABILITY IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1999 U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Banking and Financial Services, Washington, DC. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:00 a.m., in room 2128, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. James A. Leach, [chairman of the committee], presiding. Present: Chairman Leach; Representatives Bachus, Ryan, Toomey, Frank, Sherman, Mascara and
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