Exchange rate regimes in Asia: intervention and the influence of the G3 currencies on Asian exchange rates

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2010

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Cavoli, T.

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Procededings of the 6th annual Asia Pacific economic association conference, 2010, pp.1-29

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APEA 2010 (8 Jul 2010 - 9 Jul 2010 : Hong Kong)

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This paper presents an analysis of the degree of de facto exchange rate flexibility in the exchange rate regimes for emerging Asian economies, viz. Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Singapore Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam. While the propensity for foreign exchange intervention and exchange rate management among regional central banks remains fairly high in many cases and that the degree of fixity to the US dollar remains very strong, we note that these relationships correlate to some extent with both official classifications and those based on the IMF exchange rate classifications. We find that the inflation targeting countries are exhibit less fixity and are less influenced by the US dollar than the non-inflation targeters. We also find that the managed floaters (as defined by the IMF) exhibit less fixity and are less influenced by the US dollar than the conventional peggers.

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Copyright 2010 Tony Cavoli

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