IMF Working Papers

The Effect of the ERMon Participating Economies

By Tamim Bayoumi

September 1, 1991

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Tamim Bayoumi. The Effect of the ERMon Participating Economies, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

The effect of membership of the ERM on macroeconomic performance is analyzed using vector autoregression techniques. The results indicate that while the ERM has had little effect on the nature of the shocks hitting the economies, it has had a significant effect on the response of member countries to these shocks. In addition, long-time members of the ERM have significantly more correlated shocks than other countries. These results conform to the thesis that the ERM represents a move by countries with relatively similar underlying shocks to coordinate macroeconomic policy.

Subject: Conventional peg, Economic theory, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rate flexibility, Floating exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Supply shocks

Keywords: Conventional peg, Demand and supply shock, ERM correlation coefficients, ERM country, ERM member, Europe, Exchange rate, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rate flexibility, Floating exchange rates, Open economy, Supply and demand demand shock, Supply curve, Supply shocks, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    36

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1991/086

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0861991

  • ISBN:

    9781451953725

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 39, No. 2, June 1992.

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