Currency boards and currency Crises.

This paper demonstrates how a currency board can become vulnerable to a crisis in which the policymaker is forced to devalue. The model is built from two blocks: first, incomplete information about the devaluation cost faced by the policymaker; and second, unemployment persistence. Incomplete inform...

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Main Author: Irwin, G
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2001
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Currency boards and currency crises by Irwin, G

Published 2001
Working paper