Dual Currency Boards: A Proposal for Currency Stability

December 1, 2000

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S. E Oppers Dual Currency Boards: A Proposal for Currency Stability, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed September 18, 2024

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Summary

This paper shows that extending the convertibility guarantee of the traditional currency board to a second reserve currency brings about an automatic, market-driven change of the peg when the initial reserve currency appreciates beyond a specified level. The “dual” currency board thus maintains the advantages of a hard peg, but avoids the economic difficulties associated with the link to an overvalued reserve currency. As an added benefit, the system has the potential to promote global currency stability, with the reserves of the dual currency board country acting as a buffer stock to the exchange cross-rate of the chosen reserve currencies.

Subject: Conventional peg, Currencies, Currency boards, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Money, Reserve currencies

Keywords: CB euro rate, Conventional peg, Cross rate, Currencies, Currency, Currency board, Currency Board rate, Currency Board system, Currency boards, Currency movement, Currency stability, Currency-board cross rate, Depreciation vis-à-vis, Dollar, Euro, Euro-dollar rate, Exchange rate, Exchange rate regimes, Exchange rates, Fixed exchange rates, Global, Money machine, Parity euro-dollar rate, Parity relationship, Reserve currencies, Reserve currency, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

22
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 2000/199
Stock No:

WPIEA1992000
ISBN:

9781451860108
ISSN:

1018-5941

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