How tight should one's hands be tied? Fear of floating and the credibility of exchange rate regimes

Topics in Macroeconomics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages

  Rodríguez López, Jesús ^b   Mendizabal, Hugo Rodriguez ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Credibility; Exchange rate arrangements; Fear of floating; Target zones

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750181629     PISSN: 15345998     EISSN: 15345998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-5998.1401     Document Type: Article

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