Moving to Greater Exchange Rate Flexibility: Operational Aspects Based on Lessons from Detailed Country Experiences

April 30, 2007

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Inci Ötker. Moving to Greater Exchange Rate Flexibility: Operational Aspects Based on Lessons from Detailed Country Experiences, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2007) accessed December 23, 2024

Summary

Many countries have moved towards more flexible exchange rate regimes over the last decade to take advantage of greater monetary policy autonomy and flexibility in responding to external shocks. Some reluctance to let go of pegged exchange rates persists, however, despite the benefits of flexibility. The institutional and operational requirements needed to support a floating exchange rate, as well as difficulties in assessing the right time and manner to exit, tend to be additional factors in this reluctance. This volume presents the concrete steps taken by a number of countries in transition to greater exchange rate flexibility and elaborates on the operational ingredients that proved helpful in promoting successful and durable transitions. It attempts to provide a better understanding (and hence a "road map") of how these various operational ingredients were established and coordinated, how their implementation interacted with macro and other conditions, and how they contributed to the smoothness of each transition.

Subject: Currency markets, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rate flexibility, Exchange rates, Financial markets, Foreign exchange

Keywords: Currency markets, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rate flexibility, Exchange rates, FX legislation, FX risk, Global, Inflation, Market, Market development, Market expectation, Market participant, Market-inhibiting regulation, OP, Risk exposure

Publication Details

Pages:

92
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Occasional Paper No. 2007/005
Stock No:

S256EA
ISBN:

9781589066243
ISSN:

0251-6365

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