An Interest Rate Defense of a Fixed Exchange Rate?

October 1, 2000

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Olivier D Jeanne, and Robert P Flood. An Interest Rate Defense of a Fixed Exchange Rate?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed September 20, 2024

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Summary

Defending a government’s exchange-rate commitment with active interest rate policy is not an option in the Krugman-Flood-Garber (KFG) model of speculative attacks. In that model, the interest rate is the passive reflection of currency-depreciation expectations. In this paper we show how to adapt the KFG model to allow for an interest rate defense. It is shown that increasing the domestic-currency interest rate makes domestic assets more attractive according to an asset substitution effect, but weakens the domestic currency by increasing the government’s fiscal liabilities. As a result, raising the interest rate hastens the speculative attack when speculation is motivated by underlying fiscal fragility.

Subject: Conventional peg, Currencies, Demand for money, Exchange rates, Financial services, Foreign exchange, Interest rate parity, Money

Keywords: Collapse interest rate, Conventional peg, Currencies, Currency peg, Currency-peg collapse, Defense in the Krugman-Flood-Garber, Demand for money, East Asia, Exchange rates, Fiscal policy, Fixed exchange rate regime, Global, Ill-conceived interest rate strategy, Interest rate, Interest rate defense, Interest rate parity, Interest rate rise, Money supply, Nominal interest rate, Southeast Asia, Speculative attack, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

19
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2000/159
Stock No:

WPIEA1592000
ISBN:

9781451857665
ISSN:

1018-5941

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