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Flexible Exchange Rates and Interdependence [with Comments] (Taux de change flexibles et interdépendance) (Tipos de cambio flexibles e interdependencia)
The paper reviews the channels of macroeconomic interdependence under flexible exchange rates. The model emphasizes the linkage of international capital markets, expectations, and nominal and real wage stickiness in affecting the impact of disturbances on employment, prices, and the exchange rate. T...
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Published in: | IMF staff papers 1983-03, Vol.30 (1), p.3-38 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | The paper reviews the channels of macroeconomic interdependence under flexible exchange rates. The model emphasizes the linkage of international capital markets, expectations, and nominal and real wage stickiness in affecting the impact of disturbances on employment, prices, and the exchange rate. The standard rational-expectations macroeconomic model is extended to facilitate analysis of the role of risk premiums created by imperfect asset substitutability. Peso problems and bubbles are discussed briefly. In a discussion of third-country effects, the paper addresses the implications tight money has for developing countries. These countries are affected by adverse effects of increased real interest rates on their debt, by reduced real prices of their commodity exports owing to decreased demand and the real appreciation of the dollar, and by reduced demand for their manufactured exports. The paper discusses two alternative proposals designed to deal with the exchange rate implications of policy interdependence. One is the McKinnon proposal for world monetarism; the other is the band proposal. Both proposals are rejected because they fail to cope with the problems of the transition to a low, common inflation rate. The paper concludes with the suggestion that improved performance of the world economy cannot come from a better exchange rate system but rather from a more systematic use of incomes policies. /// L'étude traite des mécanismes de transmission de l'interdépendance macroéconomique en régime de taux de change flexibles. Le modèle souligne le rôle joué par le lien qui existe entre les marchés de capitaux internationaux, les anticipations et l'inflexibilité à la baisse des salaires nominaux et réels dans la transmission des perturbations économiques sur l'emploi, les prix et le taux de change. Le modèle macroéconomique type fondé sur les anticipations rationnelles est élargi de facon à faciliter l'analyse du rôle des primes de risque créées par la substituabilité imparfaite des avoirs. Les problèmes que posent le peso et les vagues d'extrême spéculation sont examinés brièvement. Abordant les effets ressentis par les pays tiers, l'auteur de l'étude examine les implications d'une politique monétaire restrictive pour les pays en développement; cette politique exerce sur eux des effets défavorables étant donné qu'elle relève les taux d'intérêt réels de leur dette, qu'elle abaisse les prix réels de leurs exportations de produits primaires du fait de l'affaib |
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ISSN: | 0020-8027 1020-7635 1564-5150 |
DOI: | 10.2307/3866874 |