Exchange-rate policies for emerging market economies /

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Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1999 [i.e. 1998]
Description:x, 391 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:The political economy of global interdependence
Political economy of global interdependence.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3430822
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Varying Form of Title:Exchange rate policies for emerging market economies
Other authors / contributors:Sweeney, Richard J. (Richard James), 1944-
Wihlborg, Clas G.
Willett, Thomas D.
ISBN:081333019X (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 1. Fixed Vs Flexible Exchange Rates: the Debate Continues
  • 1. The Case for Hard Currency Strategies for Emerging Market Economies
  • Introduction
  • Summary and Conclusions
  • Appendix Selective Policy Indicators
  • Notes
  • References
  • 2. Is Optimum Currency Area Theory Irrelevant for Economies in Transition?
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • 3. The Relevance of the Optimum Currency Area Approach for Exchange Rate Policies in Emerging Market Economies
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 2. Exchange Rate Pegging as an Anti-Inflation Strategy
  • 4. Exchange Rates as Nominal Anchors: An Overview of the Issues
  • Introduction
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • 5. Central European Exchange Rate Policy and Inflation
  • Concluding Comments
  • Notes
  • References
  • 6. The Baltic States: Alternative Routes to Credibility
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • Notes
  • 7. Exchange Rate Based Stabilization Policy in Latin America
  • Summarizing the Lessons from Latin America
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Notes
  • References
  • 8. Is Pegging the Exchange Rate a Cure for Inflation? East Asian Experiences
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix Exchange Rate Regimes in Pacific Basin Economies, 1980-1994
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 3. Issues for Exchange Rate Management
  • 9. Intervention Strategy and Purchasing Power Parity
  • Introduction
  • Notes
  • References
  • 10. Trade and Payments in Eastern European Economic Reform
  • Concluding Remarks
  • References
  • Notes
  • 11. Real Exchange Rate Targeting in Economies in Transition and the Sterilization Problem: The Hungarian Experience
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 4. Currency Areas and Currency Boards
  • Introduction
  • 12. Exchange Rate Crises: Are Currency Boards the Answer for Emerging Market Economies?
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • 13. The Estonian Currency Board
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • 14. The Lithuanian Currency Board
  • Introduction of the Lithuanian Currency Board
  • Conclusions
  • Appendix Law of the Republic of Lithuania No. 1-407 on the Credibility of the Litas March 17, 1994, Vilnius
  • Notes
  • References
  • Part 5. Experiences from the Emerging Market Economies
  • 15. The Czech Case: Fixed Exchange Rates Through Stages of Transition
  • 15. The Czech Case: Fixed Exchange Rates Through Stages of Transition
  • Conclusions: is an Exchange Rate Peg Sustainable and Desirable in an Economy in Transition?
  • Notes
  • References
  • 16. Exchange Rate Policy in Hungary Between 1989 and Mid 1995
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • 17. Poland's Exchange Rate Policy in the 1990s
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • References
  • 18. An Evaluation of Optimal Currency Areas for the Commonwealth of Independent States
  • Notes
  • Notes
  • References