IMF Working Papers

Macroeconomic Implications of Real Exchange Rate Targeting in Developing Countries

By Peter J Montiel, Jonathan David Ostry

March 1, 1991

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Peter J Montiel, and Jonathan David Ostry. Macroeconomic Implications of Real Exchange Rate Targeting in Developing Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

This paper analyzes the macroeconomic effects of a variety of exogenous and policy-induced real disturbances when the authorities target the level of the real exchange rate. It first discusses the implications--particularly for inflation and the current account--of targeting the rate at an “overdepreciated” level. The paper then examines the dynamic response of both output and inflation to a number of shocks. Further applications of the model, particularly as regards fiscal explanations of inflation, high-inflation plateaus, and money-based stabilization programs, are also considered.

Subject: Conventional peg, Foreign exchange, Inflation, International trade, Labor, Prices, Real exchange rates, Real wages, Terms of trade

Keywords: Conventional peg, Excess demand, Exchange rate, Exchange rate rule, Home goods market, Inflation, Price level, Rate of inflation, Real exchange rates, Real value, Real wages, Terms of trade, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    49

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1991/029

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0291991

  • ISBN:

    9781451844702

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Analyzes the macroeconomic effects of a variety of exogenous and policy-induced real disturbances when the authorities target the level of the real exchange rate. Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 38, No. 4, December 1991.

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