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Universidad Central de Venezuela
2000
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| contents | Why do countries float the way they float? Ricardo Hausmann Ernesto Stein Ugo Panizza Economía y Finanzas Exchange rate Dollarization Emerging Markets Countries that are classified as having floating exchange rate systems (or very wide bands) show strikingly different patterns of behavior. They hold very different levels of international reserves and allow very different volatilities to the movements of the exchange rate relative to the volatility that they tolerate either on the level of reserves or on interest rates. We document these differences and present a model that explains them as the optimal response of a Central Bank that attempts to minimize a standard loss function, in an environment in which firms are credit-constrained and incomplete markets limit their ability to avoid currency mismatches. This model suggests that the difference in the way countries float cold be related to their differing levels of exchange rate pass-through and the differing ability to avoid currency mismatches. We test these implications and find a very strong and robust relationship between the pattern of floating and the ability of a country to borrow internationally in its own currency. We find weaker and less robust evidence on the importance of pass-through to account for differences across countries with respect to their exchange rate/monetary management. 2000 artículo científico 1315-3617 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36460202 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=364 Revista Venezolana de Análisis de Coyuntura application/pdf Universidad Central de Venezuela Revista Venezolana de Análisis de Coyuntura (República Bolivariana de Venezuela) Num.2 Vol.VI |
| format | Artículo científico |
| id | redalyc_36460202 |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2000 |
| publisher | Universidad Central de Venezuela |
| spellingShingle | Why do countries float the way they float? Ricardo Hausmann Economía y Finanzas Exchange rate Dollarization Emerging Markets Why do countries float the way they float? Ricardo Hausmann Ernesto Stein Ugo Panizza Economía y Finanzas Exchange rate Dollarization Emerging Markets Countries that are classified as having floating exchange rate systems (or very wide bands) show strikingly different patterns of behavior. They hold very different levels of international reserves and allow very different volatilities to the movements of the exchange rate relative to the volatility that they tolerate either on the level of reserves or on interest rates. We document these differences and present a model that explains them as the optimal response of a Central Bank that attempts to minimize a standard loss function, in an environment in which firms are credit-constrained and incomplete markets limit their ability to avoid currency mismatches. This model suggests that the difference in the way countries float cold be related to their differing levels of exchange rate pass-through and the differing ability to avoid currency mismatches. We test these implications and find a very strong and robust relationship between the pattern of floating and the ability of a country to borrow internationally in its own currency. We find weaker and less robust evidence on the importance of pass-through to account for differences across countries with respect to their exchange rate/monetary management. 2000 artículo científico 1315-3617 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36460202 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=364 Revista Venezolana de Análisis de Coyuntura application/pdf Universidad Central de Venezuela Revista Venezolana de Análisis de Coyuntura (República Bolivariana de Venezuela) Num.2 Vol.VI |
| title | Why do countries float the way they float? |
| topic | Economía y Finanzas Exchange rate Dollarization Emerging Markets |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=36460202 |