IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 3

IMF Staff Papers, August 5, 2008

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Special issue on exchange rates drawn from the Eighth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference held at the International Monetary Fund in Washington in November 2007.
Includes the Mundell-Fleming Lecture by Stanley Fischer focusing on exchange rate systems, surveillance, and advice.
Contains empirical and survey-based studies on de facto exchange rate regimes, exchange rate policy attitudes, and market reactions to official declarations of exchange rate policy.

Mundell-Fleming Lecture (Stanley Fischer)
- Focus: exchange rate systems, surveillance, and advice.
"Techniques for estimating de facto exchange rate regimes" (Jeffrey Frankel and Shang-Jin Wei)
- Focus: methodological examination of estimating de facto exchange rate regimes.
Survey analysis of exchange rate policy attitudes (J. Lawrence Broz, Jeffry Frieden, and Stephen Weymouth)
- Focus: review of survey data to discern exchange rate policy attitudes.
"Fear of Declaring" (Adolfo Barajas, Lennart Erickson, and Roberto Steiner)
- Focus: attempt to determine the extent to which markets care about what countries say regarding their exchange rate policies.

Subject headings: Currencies, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rate policy, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Money, National accounts, Personal income
Keywords: Africa; Currencies; East Asia; Exchange rate arrangements; exchange rate movement; Exchange rate policy; exchange rate regime; Exchange rates; Global; government balance; Middle East; Personal income; regime choice; regime classification; RR regime classification; Southeast Asia; SP; trade share; Western Hemisphere; world GDP

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Source: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 3 (August 5, 2008).