IMF Working Papers

The Italian Lira in the Narrow Erm Band: The Challenge of Credibility

By Lazaros E. Molho

February 1, 1991

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Lazaros E. Molho The Italian Lira in the Narrow Erm Band: The Challenge of Credibility, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed November 24, 2024
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Summary

Under free capital mobility, a high-inflation country pursuing a nonaccommodating exchange rate policy will have higher real interest rates than its lower-inflation trading partners as long as that policy is not credible. If the policy gains credibility prior to inflation convergence, the sign of the real interest rate differential may be reversed. Developments in interest rate differentials and capital and reserve flows suggest that Italy’s nonaccommodating exchange rate policy has become significantly more credible in 1989-90. As improved credibility further limits their monetary autonomy, the Italian authorities will have to rely more on fiscal and incomes policies to promote disinflation.

Subject: Exchange rate policy, Exchange rates, Financial services, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Prices, Real exchange rates, Real interest rates

Keywords: Deutsche mark, Ex pose, Exchange rate, Exchange rate policy, Exchange rates, High-inflation country, In Italy, Inflation, Inflation differential, Italian lira, Italy exchange rate, Italy inflation, Nonaccommodating exchange rate policy, Rate of exchange rate depreciation, Rate of inflation, Real exchange rates, Real interest rate differential, Real interest rates, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    38

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1991/019

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0191991

  • ISBN:

    9781451843682

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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