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Exchange Rates and Interest Groups in Peru, 1950-1996

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Alberto Pascó-Font
Piero Ghezzi
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The review of Peruvian exchange rate policies during the last fifty years prompts several questions. First, why did the government choose some exchange rate regimes over others? Second, why did governments target certain exchange rate levels? Third, why, in certain episodes, did governments refuse to abandon an exchange rate peg?

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Paper provided by Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department in its series RES Working Papers with number 3120.

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