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The Politics of Exchange Rates in Developing Countries

Political Cycles and Domestic Institutions

Ralph Setzer (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XII, 258 Seiten

2006 | 2006
Physica (Verlag)
978-3-7908-1715-7 (ISBN)

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1. 1 The context What factors determine a country's exchange rate regime? Since the col lapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1973, eco nomists have been increasingly interested in answering this question. Ana lysts focused primarily on the possible influence of optimum currency area (OCA) criteria, such as a country's size, openness to trade, or factor mobi lity. More recent approaches emphasized the nature and the sources of shocks to which an economy is exposed or explicitly took imperfections on financial markets into account. However, despite a large body of work, litt le consensus has emerged about the determinants of exchange rate regime choice. The existing empirical literature could not identify a single variable as a clear predictor of exchange rate regime choice and even among eco nomically comparable countries large discrepancies in exchange rate pol icy have been observed (see, e. g. , the survey on the literature in Juhn and Mauro 2002). The inconclusiveness of traditional approaches to explain exchange rate regime choice is the stimulus for this dissertation. My main point is that political and institutional conditions help to account for differences in ex change rate policy. Li other areas of economic policy, it has become stan dard to argue that government's macroeconomic preferences are an impor tant determinant in economic policymaking and should not be neglected when analyzing macroeconomic outcomes.

General introduction.- The normative and the positive view on exchange rate policy.- Fear of floating and fear of pegging: How important is politics?.- Political uncertainty and speculative attacks.- Developing a theory of currency peg duration.- The determinants of fixed exchange rate regime duration: A survival analysis.- Political cycles and the real exchange rate.- Conclusion and discussion.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.5.2006
Reihe/Serie	Contributions to Economics
Zusatzinfo	XII, 258 p. 11 illus.
Verlagsort	Heidelberg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	420 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
Schlagworte	Datenanalyse • Developing Countries • Duration Data Analysis • Emerging Market Economies • Exchange Rate Regime • Hardcover, Softcover / Wirtschaft/Volkswirtschaft • HC/Wirtschaft/Volkswirtschaft • Political Economy • Wachstumsmärkte • Wechselkurs
ISBN-10	3-7908-1715-5 / 3790817155
ISBN-13	978-3-7908-1715-7 / 9783790817157
Zustand	Neuware