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The Politics of Exchange Rates in Developing Countries : Political Cycles and Domestic Institutions /

By: Setzer, Ralph [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Contributions to Economics: Publisher: Heidelberg : Physica-Verlag HD, 2006.Description: XII, 258 p. 11 illus. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783790817164.Subject(s): Macroeconomics | International economics | Development economics | Economics | Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics | Development Economics | International EconomicsDDC classification: 339 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
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.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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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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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