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The Politics of Exchange Rates in Developing Countries

Political Cycles and Domestic Institutions

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  • © 2006

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Authors:
  1. Ralph Setzer

    1. Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, Germany

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Part of the book series: Contributions to Economics (CE)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. General introduction

    Pages 1-11

  3. The normative and the positive view on exchange rate policy

    Pages 13-21

  4. Fear of floating and fear of pegging: How important is politics?

    Pages 23-62

  5. Political uncertainty and speculative attacks

    Pages 63-87

  6. Developing a theory of currency peg duration

    Pages 89-121

  7. The determinants of fixed exchange rate regime duration: A survival analysis

    Pages 123-185

  8. Political cycles and the real exchange rate

    Pages 187-235

  9. Conclusion and discussion

    Pages 237-241

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 243-259
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1. 1 The context What factors determine a country's exchange rate regime? Since the col­ lapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates in 1973, eco­ nomists have been increasingly interested in answering this question. Ana­ lysts focused primarily on the possible influence of optimum currency area (OCA) criteria, such as a country's size, openness to trade, or factor mobi­ lity. More recent approaches emphasized the nature and the sources of shocks to which an economy is exposed or explicitly took imperfections on financial markets into account. However, despite a large body of work, litt­ le consensus has emerged about the determinants of exchange rate regime choice. The existing empirical literature could not identify a single variable as a clear predictor of exchange rate regime choice and even among eco­ nomically comparable countries large discrepancies in exchange rate pol­ icy have been observed (see, e. g. , the survey on the literature in Juhn and Mauro 2002). The inconclusiveness of traditional approaches to explain exchange rate regime choice is the stimulus for this dissertation. My main point is that political and institutional conditions help to account for differences in ex­ change rate policy. Li other areas of economic policy, it has become stan­ dard to argue that government's macroeconomic preferences are an impor­ tant determinant in economic policymaking and should not be neglected when analyzing macroeconomic outcomes.

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  • Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt, Germany

    Ralph Setzer

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