Interest Rate Targeting in a Small Open Economy: The Predetermined Exchange Rates Case

By Guillermo Calvo, Carlos A. Végh Gramont

March 1, 1990

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Guillermo Calvo, and Carlos A. Végh Gramont Interest Rate Targeting in a Small Open Economy: The Predetermined Exchange Rates Case, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1990) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

An important hurdle in analyzing interest rate targeting is that standard models usually lead to price level or inflation rate indeterminacy. This paper develops a simple framework in which such problems do not arise because the bonds whose interest rate is controlled provide liquidity services. This framework is used to examine interest rate targeting in a small open economy under predetermined exchange rates. A permanent increase in the interest rate has no real effects. In contrast, a temporary increase in the interest rate leads to higher consumption and to a current account deficit that worsens over time.

Subject: Consumption, Exchange rates, Inflation, Interest rate policy, Real interest rates

Keywords: Nominal interest rate, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

32
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Working Paper No. 1990/021
Stock No:

WPIEA0211990
ISBN:

9781451921427
ISSN:

1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 37, No. 4, December 1990.

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