## IMF Staff Papers, Volume 55, No. 3

_IMF Staff Papers, August 5, 2008_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: August 5, 2008
- Series: IMF Staff Papers
- Volume: 55
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781589067240.024

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### Overview
- 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.

### Major papers and themes
- 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.

### Subjects and keywords
- 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).*

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