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Are Emerging Market Countries Learning to Float?

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Dalia Hakura

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The paper finds that exchange rate flexibility in emerging market countries has increased over the past decade. This "learning to float" appears to have involved a strengthening of monetary and financial policy frameworks aimed at directly addressing the key vulnerabilities that give rise to the "fear of floating." The results in the paper suggest that the trend toward greater exchange rate flexibility, alongside a strengthening of banking supervision, has afforded emerging market countries more monetary policy independence.

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Paper provided by International Monetary Fund in its series IMF Working Papers with number 05/98.

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Date of creation: 01 Jun 2005
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Keywords: Emerging markets ; Developed countries ; Floating exchange rates ; Monetary policy ;

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  1. Reginaldo P. Nogueira Jnr, 2006. "Inflation Targeting, Exchange Rate Pass-Through and 'Fear of Floating'," Studies in Economics 0605, Department of Economics, University of Kent. [Downloadable!]
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