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The Global Implications of Regional Exchange Rate Regines

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Harris Dellas (University of Bern, Department of Economics, CEPR and IMOP)
George S. Tavlas () (Bank of Greece, Economic Research Department)

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We examine the implications of a regional, fixed exchange rate regime for global exchange rate volatility. The concept of the optimum currency area turns out to play an important role. The formation of a regional regime tends to decrease global volatility when countries are symmetric. The effects tend to be ambiguous in the case of asymmetries. The reduction in global volatility is larger when the rest of the world has more rigid labor markets than the peggers. When the exchange rate management is done mostly by countries with relatively more flexible labor markets. And in the presence of a negative correlation in productivity shocks across countries.

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Paper provided by Bank of Greece in its series Working Papers with number 18.

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Date of creation: Oct 2004
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Publication status: Published in Journal of International Money and Finance, 2005, 24 (2), pp. 243-255
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Keywords: Regional exchange rate systems global exchange rate volatility optimum currency area

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