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  "title": "IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 3",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Papers, August 5, 2008",
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  "summary": "This special issue on exchange rates is drawn from the Eighth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference held at the International Monetary Fund in Washington in November 2007. The Mundell-Fleming Lecture by Stanley Fischer focuses on exchange rate systems, surveillance, and advice.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- 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.\n- Includes the Mundell-Fleming Lecture by Stanley Fischer focusing on exchange rate systems, surveillance, and advice.\n- 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."
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    {
      "heading": "Major papers and themes",
      "content": "- Mundell-Fleming Lecture (Stanley Fischer)\n  - Focus: exchange rate systems, surveillance, and advice.\n- \"Techniques for estimating de facto exchange rate regimes\" (Jeffrey Frankel and Shang-Jin Wei)\n  - Focus: methodological examination of estimating de facto exchange rate regimes.\n- Survey analysis of exchange rate policy attitudes (J. Lawrence Broz, Jeffry Frieden, and Stephen Weymouth)\n  - Focus: review of survey data to discern exchange rate policy attitudes.\n- \"Fear of Declaring\" (Adolfo Barajas, Lennart Erickson, and Roberto Steiner)\n  - Focus: attempt to determine the extent to which markets care about what countries say regarding their exchange rate policies."
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    {
      "heading": "Subjects and keywords",
      "content": "- Subject headings: Currencies, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rate policy, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Money, National accounts, Personal income\n- 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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      "heading": "Access and formats (not exhaustive)",
      "content": "- Noted availability on IMF eLibrary and options to download PDF, order a print copy, and create citations in multiple formats.\n\nSource: IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 3 (August 5, 2008).\n\n---\n\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/imf-staff-papers/issues/2016/12/31/imf-staff-papers-volume-55-no-21720"
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    "Published: August 5, 2008",
    "Series: IMF Staff Papers",
    "Volume: 55",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589067240.024",
    "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)",
    "\"Techniques for estimating de facto exchange rate regimes\" (Jeffrey Frankel and Shang-Jin Wei)",
    "Survey analysis of exchange rate policy attitudes (J. Lawrence Broz, Jeffry Frieden, and Stephen Weymouth)",
    "\"Fear of Declaring\" (Adolfo Barajas, Lennart Erickson, and Roberto Steiner)",
    "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",
    "Noted availability on IMF eLibrary and options to download PDF, order a print copy, and create citations in multiple formats."
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