Foreign Currency Deposits: Implications for Macroeconomic Policies

Author/Editor:

Andréas Georgiou

Publication Date:

November 1, 1991

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Summary:

This paper discusses the relationship between foreign currency deposits and money, and it shows that the indexation of part of the nominal money supply to the exchange rate, as a result of the presence of foreign currency deposits, will increase the inflationary effects of monetary disequilibria under a floating exchange rate system and will reduce the effect of a devaluation of a usually fixed exchange rate. When a real exchange rate rule is followed, the presence of foreign currency deposits implies that there is less of a tradeoff between the rate of nominal depreciation/inflation and the level of the real exchange rate. The paper shows how certain aspects of financial programming may be affected by the presence of these deposits.

Series:

Working Paper No. 1991/108

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

November 1, 1991

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451946352/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA1081991

Pages:

37

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