Evaluation of currency regimes
Subtitle: the unique role of sudden stops
By: Assaf Razin, Yona Rubinstein.
Contributors: Rubinstein, Yona, 1962-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11785; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11785.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Financial crises.; Foreign exchange rates.
Description: "This paper tackles two established puzzles in international macroeconomics literature.  The first is the lack of systematic difference in the macroeconomic performance across exchange rate regimes.  The second is the absence of a clear empirical relationship between macroeconomic performance and capital-account liberalization.  We suggest that both may appear because empirical methodologies fail to account for a latent economic "crisis state," influenced by exchange-rate and capital account regimes, and to allow the effects of a policy regime on growth to depend on whether the economy is in a crisis-prone latent state.  In practice, we model and estimate the latent state of the economy as a crisis probability.  In the framework we propose, exchange rate and capital market liberalization regimes can have both a direct effect on short-term growth, and an indirect effect on growth that is channelled through their effects on the crisis probability"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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