Estimation of de facto exchange rate regimes
Subtitle: synthesis of the techniques for inferring flexibility and basket weights
By: Jeffrey A. Frankel, Shang-Jin Wei.
Contributors: Wei, Shang-Jin.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 14016; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 14016.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The paper offers a new approach to estimate de facto exchange rate regimes, a synthesis of two techniques.  One is a technique that the authors have used in the past to estimate implicit de facto weights when the hypothesis is a basket peg with little flexibility.  The second is a technique used by others to estimate the de facto degree of exchange rate flexibility when the hypothesis is an anchor to the dollar or some other single major currency, but with a possibly-substantial degree of flexibility around that anchor.  Since many currencies today follow variants of Band-Basket-Crawl, it is important to have available a technique that can cover both dimensions, inferring weights and inferring flexibility.  We try out the technique on twenty-some currencies, over the period 1980-2007.  Most are currencies that have officially used baskets as anchors for at least part of this sample period.  But a few are known floaters or known simple peggers.  In general the synthesis technique seems to work as it should"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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