IMF Working Papers

Independent Currency Authorities: An Analytic Primer

By Kent Osband, Delano Villanueva

July 1, 1992

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Kent Osband, and Delano Villanueva. Independent Currency Authorities: An Analytic Primer, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1992) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

This paper provides an analytic overview of independent currency authorities (ICAs), sometimes called currency boards. ICAs issue and redeem domestic currency against an exchange standard on demand and back such operations through a 100 percent marginal foreign reserve cover. They also impose significant constraints on the banking system and the budget of the country that operates them. When supporting institutions have been put in place, ICAs appear to have promoted price stability, foreign trade, saving, and investment.

Subject: Banking, Central banks, Currencies, Currency boards, Foreign exchange, Inflation, International reserves, Money, Prices, Reserve currencies

Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Board arrangement, Caribbean, Crawling peg, Currencies, Currency, Currency authority, Currency board, Currency boards, Eastern Europe, Exchange obligation, Foreign currency, Ica arrangement, Ica need, Ica system, Ica wish, ICA., Inflation, International reserves, Issued currency, Pound sterling, Reserve currencies, West Africa, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    30

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1992/050

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0501992

  • ISBN:

    9781451846881

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 40, No. 1, March 1993.

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