International economy
Seyed Hasan Malekhosseini; Seyed Komail Tayebi; Monireh Rafat; Mahdi Yazdani
Abstract
Estimating the real exchange rate misalignment from the equilibrium value and exploring the factors affecting its changes is crucial for both economic policymakers and economic agents. Among the various factors affecting exchange rate misalignment, the exchange rate regime, has received less attention ...
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Estimating the real exchange rate misalignment from the equilibrium value and exploring the factors affecting its changes is crucial for both economic policymakers and economic agents. Among the various factors affecting exchange rate misalignment, the exchange rate regime, has received less attention in experimental studies. Accordingly, the present paper seeks to find out the answer to the question of how real exchange rate misalignment is affected by different exchange rate regimes. In other words, in which of the exchange rate regimes is the exchange rate misalignment less and in which one it is higher? To answer the question, the propensity score matching approach has been used. For this purpose, we have used data from 116 developing countries with different exchange rate regimes in 2019. Other factors such as real exchange rate misalignment in the previous period, inflation, the quality of institutions and financial development have been considered as match variables to net the effect of the exchange rate regime on real exchange rate misalignment and to separate the effects of other variables. The results showed that the real exchange rate misalignment from its equilibrium level has responded significantly to the type of exchange rate regime adopted by the countries, so that the floating exchange rate regime increases the real exchange rate misalignment in the selected developing countries wherever implemented. It can be argued that factors such as high exchange rate fluctuations, a more drastic adjustment in the price level, and speculative bubbles or contagion effects in the floating exchange rate regime have led to an increase in these misalignments.
seyed komail tayebi; Abbas Mohammadzadeh
Volume 14, Issue 43 , July 2010, , Pages 161-187
Abstract
Capital mobility has been an important part of the economic reforms in many developing countries since the early 1990s, after realization of the benefits of decreasing capital control during 1970s. However, capital liberalization plan has caused major economic crisis in some countries making the policy ...
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Capital mobility has been an important part of the economic reforms in many developing countries since the early 1990s, after realization of the benefits of decreasing capital control during 1970s. However, capital liberalization plan has caused major economic crisis in some countries making the policy makers more causios about the plan. In this study, we have used data of 70 selected developing economies over the period 1996-2005 to investigate the effect of capital control on the currency crises. Applying the probit panel data approach, the results show a significant inverse effect of capital control on currency crises in the sampling countries. Also, a higher degree of capital control is accompanied by the lower probability of currency crisis.