Exchange rate policy and the management of official and private capital flows in Africa /

Exchange rate policy and the management of official and private capital flows in Africa /

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Author / Creator:	Buffie, Edward F., author.
Imprint:	[Washington, D.C] : International Monetary Fund, Research Dept., 2004.
Description:	1 online resource (53 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	IMF working paper ; WP/04/216 IMF working paper ; WP/04/216.
Subject:	Foreign exchange rates -- Africa -- Econometric models. Capital movements -- Africa -- Econometric models. Economic assistance -- Africa. Monetary policy -- Africa. Currency substitution -- Africa -- Econometric models. Capital movements -- Econometric models. Economic assistance. Foreign exchange rates -- Econometric models. Africa.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12497133

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Other authors / contributors:	Adam, Christopher, author. O'Connell, Stephen (Economist), author. Pattillo, Catherine, author. International Monetary Fund. Research Department, issuing body.
ISBN:	128351561X 9781283515610 9781451875119 1451875118 9781451919714 1451919719 1462372864 9781462372867 145278938X 9781452789385 9786613828064 6613828068
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 50-53). Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	Annotation We focus on the management of highly persistent shocks to aid flows, including PRSP-related increases in net inflows, in three post-stabilization. African economies with de jure flexible exchange rates. Such shocks have beneficent long-run effects, but when currency substitution is high they can produce dramatic macroeconomic management problems in the short run. What is the appropriate mix of money and exchange rate targeting in such cases, and what is the role of temporary sterilization? We analyze these issues in an intertemporal optimizing model that allows a portion of aid to be devoted to reducing the governments seigniorage requirement. This creates a strong link between official aid flows and private capital flows. When the credibility of policymakers commitment to low inflation is firm, some degree of dirty floating, with little or no sterilization of increases in the monetary base, is the most attractive approach in the short run.
Other form:	Print version: Exchange rate policy and the management of official and private capital flows in Africa. [Washington, D.C] : International Monetary Fund, Research Dept., 2004

Table of Contents:

Contents
I. INTRODUCTION
II. COUNTRY EXPERIENCES
III. THE CORE STRUCTURE OF THE MODEL
IV. THE STEADY-STATE OUTCOME
V. FLEXIBLE EXCHANGE RATES
VI. A CRAWLING PEG
VII. STICKY PRICES
VIII. POLICY IMPLICATIONS
IX. TEMPORARY STERILIZATION
X.A MANAGED FLOAT
XI. CONCLUDING REMARKS
References