Characterizing Exchange Rate Regimes in Post-Crisis East Asia

IMF Working Papers, October 1, 2001

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Paper examines behavior of exchange rates of selected emerging market East Asian economies in the aftermath of the Asian crisis.
Focus on the Asia-5 currencies: Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, and Thailand.
Compares pre-crisis and post-crisis exchange rate behavior and against a range of other currencies.

Movements in the Asia-5 currencies were significantly influenced by the U.S. dollar's day-to-day movements before the crisis, and have continued to be influenced post-crisis.
Comparisons with a range of other currencies suggest that strong influence of the U.S. dollar is a fairly common trait across various regimes.
Post-crisis data do not support the view that the Asia-5 currencies presently have the same characteristics as they did before the crisis.

Subject: Currencies, Exchange rate analysis, Exchange rate arrangements, Exchange rates, Financial crises, Foreign exchange, Money
Keywords: Africa, Asia and Pacific, Asian crisis, coefficient estimate, Currencies, dollar coefficient, dollar peg, East Asia, exchange rate, Exchange rate analysis, Exchange rate arrangements, exchange rate flexibility, exchange rate regime, exchange rate regression, exchange rate variation, Exchange rates, regime, regime switch, standard deviation, standard error, U.S dollar, U.S. dollar, volatility, volatility estimate, WP

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