This paper develops a new methodology to infer the de facto exchange rate regime, based on a structural VAR model with sign restrictions. The methodology is applied to data from eleven emerging markets that recently experienced a currency crisis. The main findings are: (1) to be consistent with the “Hollow Middle?hypothesis, many countries moved toward hard pegs, such as dollarization and a currency board, or more flexible exchange rate arrangements that are close to the free float in the post-crisis period; and (2) the cases where a country over-states its exchange rate flexibility (including the case of “Fear of Floating? are found in all samples, but such cases tend to be less frequently found in the post-crisis period than in the pre-crisis period.
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