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Subject:
Why fixed currency exchange rate works for some, but doesnt work for others?
Category: Business and Money > Economics Asked by: mdrollas-ga List Price: $2.00 |
Posted:
08 May 2006 14:38 PDT
Expires: 07 Jun 2006 14:38 PDT Question ID: 726697 |
Countries like Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong have had success pegging their currency to the US dollar. On the other hand, Thailand, Indonesia and Argentina have had problem with fixed exchange rate such as instability. Why does fixed exchange rate have such different outcomes? |
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Subject:
Re: Why fixed currency exchange rate works for some, but doesnt work for others?
From: frde-ga on 09 May 2006 07:31 PDT |
Overvalued currencies are a one way bet. |
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Re: Why fixed currency exchange rate works for some, but doesnt work for others?
From: owejessen-ga on 11 May 2006 11:45 PDT |
This is a subject, one could write books about it, and in fact, i wrote my thesis about it. The current wisdom is, that there are about three reasons: 1. Unsufficient fundamentals (current account etc.), another is uncertainty about the governement decision to keep the peg in hard times (if there's a trade off between exchange rate stability and unemployment) and the third is contagion, that is, contries might not by themselves be succeptical to currency crises but may be induced into one through hardships of their neighbours. There about three zones in wich an economy can be with regard to currency crises: the save zone, where fundamentals are so healthy that nothing could happen, the danger zone, where it could go either way - this usually is the most violent one if things go bad, because most people will not expect it. And lastly the zone of no hope, where fundamentals are so bad that the crash becomes predictable. |
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