Monetary Rules for Emerging Market Economies

Author/Editor:

Alessandro Rebucci ; Fabio Ghironi

Publication Date:

February 1, 2002

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

We compare the performance of a currency board, inflation targeting, and dollarization in a small, open developing economy with a liberalized capital account. We focus on the transmission of shocks to currency and country risk premia and on the role of fluctuations in premia in the propagation of other shocks. We calibrate our model on Argentina. The framework matches the second moments of key variables well. Welfare analysis suggests that dollarization is preferable to alternative regimes because it removes currency premium volatility. However, a currency board can match dollarization on welfare grounds if the central bank holds a sufficiently large stock of foreign reserves.

Series:

Working Paper No. 2002/034

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

February 1, 2002

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451845273/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA0342002

Pages:

41

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