Self-Fulfilling Risk Predictions: An Application to Speculative Attacks
August 1, 1998
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Summary
The paper shows that changing market beliefs about currency risk can generate a self-fulfilling speculative attack on a fixed exchange rate. The attack does not require a later change in policies to make it profitable. This is illustrated by introducing an endogenous risk premium into a “first-generation model” of a speculative attack. The model is further modified to take account of sterilization, debt-financed fiscal deficits, and anticipatory price-setting behavior. The model is used to interpret the 1994 Mexican peso crisis.
Subject: Central banks, Conventional peg, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, International reserves, Monetary base, Money, National accounts, Return on investment
Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Conventional peg, Currency crisis, devaluation, Europe, exchange rate float, Exchange rates, exchange-rate variance, International reserves, market structure, Mexico, Monetary base, money demand, price level, Return on investment, risk premium, shadow exchange rate, shadow rate, U.S. dollar, WP
Pages:
34
Volume:
1998
DOI:
Issue:
124
Series:
Working Paper No. 1998/124
Stock No:
WPIEA1241998
ISBN:
9781451854695
ISSN:
1018-5941
