The Politics of Exchange Rates in Developing Countries [electronic resource] : Political Cycles and Domestic Institutions / by Ralph Setzer.
Tipo de material: TextoSeries Contributions to Economics | Contributions to EconomicsEditor: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 2006Descripción: XII, 258 p. 11 illus. online resourceTipo de contenido:- text
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General introduction -- The normative and the positive view on exchange rate policy -- Fear of floating and fear of pegging: How important is politics? -- Political uncertainty and speculative attacks -- Developing a theory of currency peg duration -- The determinants of fixed exchange rate regime duration: A survival analysis -- Political cycles and the real exchange rate -- Conclusion and discussion.
This book considers the issue of exchange rate policymaking from a political economy perspective. It illustrates both theoretically and empirically how domestic political and institutional incentives shape exchange rate policies in developing countries. Modelling policymakers preferences as endogenous, the book answers questions as the following: What influences the relative value that a country puts on fixed versus floating regimes? Why do governments, during certain episodes, deviate from an officially announced exchange rate regime? How do policymakers exchange rate preferences change during election periods? The empirical analysis is based on a panel survey of 47 countries and thereby provides insights on how political and institutional conditions typically affect exchange rate policy.
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