Exchange rate regimes, devaluations and growth collapses

The loss of output in major recessions tends to be permanent. Using IMF de facto exchange rate regime classifications over the period 1980 to 2012 for up to 193 countries, it is shown that growth collapses are more frequent under less flexible exchange rate regimes, and particularly hard pegs. Among...

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Main Authors: Bleaney, Michael, Saxena, Sweta, Yin, Lin
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51798/