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Does the Nominal Exchange Rate Regime Matter for Investment?

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Hjalmar Böhm ()
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This paper analyses the impact of exchange rate unertainty upon the pattern of investment in different exchange rate regimes (very hard pegs, intermediate regimes and floats) by means of a unified approach. The comparison of different exchange rate regimes indicates that currency volatility exerts only a small influence upon the level of investment spending. On the other hand, firms turn out to be more cautious about responding to exchange rate shocks in a credible target zone model than in a flexible exchange rate regime or in a target zone model with stochastic realignment.

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Paper provided by Hamburg University, Department of Economics in its series Quantitative Macroeconomics Working Papers with number 20105.

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Keywords: Investment; Uncertainty; Irreversibility; Exchange Rate Regimes;

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D81 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Capital; Investment; Capacity
F31 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Exchange

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