Are Emerging Market Countries Learning to Float?
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Summary:
The paper finds that exchange rate flexibility in emerging market countries has increased over the past decade. This "learning to float" appears to have involved a strengthening of monetary and financial policy frameworks aimed at directly addressing the key vulnerabilities that give rise to the "fear of floating." The results in the paper suggest that the trend toward greater exchange rate flexibility, alongside a strengthening of banking supervision, has afforded emerging market countries more monetary policy independence.
Series:
Working Paper No. 2005/098
Subject:
Bank supervision Exchange rate arrangements Exchange rate flexibility Exchange rates Monetary policy frameworks
English
Publication Date:
May 1, 2005
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451861174/1018-5941
Stock No:
WPIEA2005098
Pages:
34
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