Volume: 26
Series: IMF Staff Papers
Author(s):
International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
January
1979
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451972597.024
ISBN: 9781451972597
This paper examines two questions: What basket of currencies should a small developing country use as the exchange rate standard for its currency? When are discretionary changes of the value of its currency against...
Volume/Issue: 2012/73
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Constant Lonkeng Ngouana
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
01
March
2012
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781475502251.001
ISBN: 9781475502251
This paper assesses the role of trade patterns in shaping the volatility of the effective exchange rate under two alternative peg regimes: a hard peg to a single currency and a peg to a basket of currencies. I link...
Volume/Issue: 2019/147
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Patrick Blagrave
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date:
11
July
2019
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781498321761.001
ISBN: 9781498321761
Co-movement (synchronicity) in inflation rates among a set of 13 emerging and developing countries in Asia is shown to be strongest for the food component, partly due to common rainfall shocks-a result which the pa...