Accumulating Foreign Reserves Under Floating Exchange Rates

April 1, 2008

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Fernando M. Gonçalves Accumulating Foreign Reserves Under Floating Exchange Rates, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2008) accessed November 8, 2024

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Summary

Official accumulation of foreign reserves may be perceived as interventions to influence the exchange rate, undermining the credibility of floating exchange rates and inflation targets. This paper develops a theoretical framework to study the interaction between reserve accumulation and monetary policy. The model uncovers a trade-off between the speed of reserve accumulation and anti-inflationary credibility. Under reasonable assumptions, delegation of intervention and monetary policy decisions to separate government agencies allows faster reserve accumulation, while centralization of these decisions results in a more stable economy. The analysis underscores the importance of rather overlooked institutional features of policymaking in open economies.

Subject: Foreign exchange intervention, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Institutional arrangements for revenue administration, Reserves accumulation

Keywords: Monetary policy, Mover accent, WP

Publication Details

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41
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Working Paper No. 2008/096
Stock No:

WPIEA2008096
ISBN:

9781451869576
ISSN:

1018-5941

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