## Virtual: Exchange Rate Policy (ERP)

## Source details

**Canonical URL:** [Virtual: Exchange Rate Policy (ERP)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2024/erpat24-07v)

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## Bibliographic details
- Session: AT 24.07V
- Location: Ebene, Mauritius
- Dates: April 29, 2024 - May 10, 2024 (2 weeks)
- Delivery method: Virtual Training
- Primary language: English
- Interpretation language: French Portuguese
- Status: Deadline passed

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### Session details and audience
- Session No.: AT 24.07 V
- Location: Ebene, Mauritius
- Date: April 29, 2024 - May 10, 2024 (2 weeks) New dates
- Delivery Method: Virtual Training
- Primary Language: English
- Interpretation Language: French Portuguese
- Deadline passed
- Target Audience: Junior to mid-level officials who work with exchange rate policy and analysis.

### Qualifications and prerequisites
- Expected background: an advanced degree in economics or equivalent professional experience.
- Recommended prior courses: Financial Programming and Policies (FPP) or Macroeconomic Diagnostics (MDS).
- Software and technical skills: comfortable with Microsoft Excel and Excel-based applications; working knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and EViews.

### Course description — topics covered
- Key exchange rate concepts: real, nominal, bilateral, multilateral, spot, forward.
- Arbitrage and exchange rate conditions: uncovered interest rate parity, law of one price, purchasing power parity (PPP), relative PPP.
- Real exchange rate equilibrium; role of the (real) exchange rate in achieving internal and external balance; adjustment to overall equilibrium under floating and fixed exchange rate regimes.
- Link between the real exchange rate and growth; exchange rate growth strategies (undervaluation, Washington Consensus); the Balassa-Samuelson effect.
- Exchange rate regimes: taxonomy, choice of regime; benefits and costs of floating; the policy mix: impossible trinity; exchange rate regimes in historical context.
- Exchange rate policy and the policy mix: monetary policy independence; overvaluation; external adjustment; exchange rate volatility and financial stability; exchange rate regime and trade integration; nominal anchor; fiscal policy; capital controls.
- Practical problems in developing and emerging market economies: concerns of excessive exchange rate volatility; de jure vs. de facto regimes; competitiveness, price stability; exchange-rate pass-through; dollarization and currency mismatches; political economy of exchange rates; implementation of exchange rate policies; targets and instruments.
- Presentation of country cases.
- Transitions from rigid to flexible exchange rate regimes: motives; speed of transition; supporting elements: deep and liquid domestic FX markets, setting and regulation of derivatives markets, coherent intervention policy, choice of nominal anchor; transition sequence.
- FX interventions: sterilized and non-sterilized FX interventions; impact on monetary policy; motives for intervention; instruments used for intervention; channels and effectiveness of FX interventions; tactics of FX interventions; foreign exchange intervention communication policy, rules vs. discretion.
- Currency crisis: causes, role of macroeconomic and prudential policies.
- International reserve adequacy (ARA) metric.
- External Balance Assessment (EBA).
- Early warning system.

### Course objectives and competencies gained
- Assess whether FX reserves are adequate using standard and new indicators of reserve adequacy.
- Assess the effectiveness of interventions in the FX market, using case studies of interventions.
- Measure the degree of real exchange rate misalignment using different models and methods, including the EBA.
- Construct systems for early warning of currency crises using data on nominal exchange rates and international reserves.
- Estimate the probability of experiencing a currency crisis using panel data econometric techniques.
- Describe the exchange rate regime choice and how country-specific features could influence the choice.
- Identify policy inconsistencies that may lead to currency crises.
- Identify policy measures to prevent currency crises.

### Additional note
- IMF offers online training to government officials and the public.

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## References

- [Virtual Training](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/delivery-methods)
- [Core Elements of Banking Supervision (CBS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2027/cbsat27-10)
- [Advanced Government Finance Statistics (GFS-A)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/gfs-ace26-45)
- [Fiscal Sustainability (FS)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/fsce26-38)
- [Safeguards Assessments of Central Banks (SAC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2026/sacat26-30)
- [Macroeconomic Management in Resource Rich Countries (MRC)](https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/ce/2026/mrcce26-44)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/capacity-development/training/icdtc/schedule/at/2024/erpat24-07v_