Exchange Rate Targets and Currency Bands

by Paul Krugman (Editor), Marcus Miller (Editor)

Overview

Research programs in economics usually emerge from the intersection between a new analytical approach and a real economic problem. In the past few years, such a program has emerged in international monetary economics, which is underpinned by a theoretical framework grounded in stochastic calculus and the increasing prominence in the real world of the international monetary arrangements under which national monetary authorities attempt to keep exchange rates within bands or "target zones." This new program of research also covers switches in exchange rate regimes. This volume from the Centre for Economic Policy Research (UK) and the National Bureau of Economic Research (US) includes contributions from most of the active participants in the development of this new field, and will serve as a useful introduction to this new research program.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521435260
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/22/1992
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.75(d)

Table of Contents

1. Editors' introduction Paul Krugman, and Marcus Miller; Part I. Modelling Currency Bands: 2. Exchange rates in a currency band: a sketch of the new approach Paul Krugman; Part II. Currency Bands: Extending the Model: 3. The linkage between speculative attack and target zone models of exchange rates: some extended results Robert P. Flood, and Peter M. Garber; Discussion Paul Weller; 4. Target zones, broad and narrow Francisco Delgado, and Bernard Dumas; Discussion Leonardo Bartolini; Part III. Regime Shifts: The Return to Gold and Ems Entry: 5. Stochastic process switching: some simple solutions; 6. Entering a preannounced currency band Masaki Ichikawa, Marcus Miller, and Alan Sutherland; 7. Britain's return to gold and entry into the EMS: joining conditions and credibility Marcus Miller, and Alan Sutherland; Discussion Gregor W. Smith; Part IV. Limited Reserves and Sustainability: 8. Speculative attacks on target zones Paul Krugman, and Julio Rotemberg; Discussion Bernard Dumas; 9. Anomalous speculative attacks on fixed exchange rate regimes: possible resolutions of the 'gold standard paradox' Willem H. Buiter, and Vittorio U. Grilli; Discussion Maurice Obstfeld; 10. Sustainable intervention policies and exchange rate dynamics Giuseppe Bertola, and Ricardo J. Caballero; Discussion Lars E. O. Svensson; Part V. Estimation and Testing: 11. Estimation and testing in models of exchange rate target zones and process switching Gregor W. Smith, and Michael G. Spencer; Discussion Hossein Samiei.

Editorial Reviews

"...to be welcomed as a timely dissemination of some of the essential contributions to the study of target zones." Karl Driessen, Finance & Development

"In conclusion, the volume is an accurate picture of the recent (1990) state of the 'target zone' literature and will be useful to economists desirous of keeping abreast...." Stanley W. Black, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking

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