Crawling Bands or Monitoring Bands: How to Manage Exchange Rates in a World of Capital Mobility

This paper discusses the choice of exchange‐rate regime. It is argued that in general floating is undesirable, because of the extreme weakness of the economic mechanism that holds the exchange rate close to a level consistent with the fundamentals. Of the alternatives, fixed rates can occasionally m...

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Published in:International finance (Oxford, England) England), 1998-10, Vol.1 (1), p.59-79
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