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Segmented Asset Markets and Optimal Exchange Rate Regimes

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Singh, Rajesh
Lahiri, Amartya
Vegh, Carlos A

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This paper revisits the issue of the optimal exchange rate regime in a flexible price environment. The key innovation is that we analyze this question in the context of environments where only a fraction of agents participate in asset market transactions (i.e., asset markets are segmented). Under this friction alternative exchange rate regimes have different implications for real allocations in the economy. In the context of this environment we show that flexible exchange rates are optimal under monetary shocks and fixed exchange rates are optimal under real shocks.

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Paper provided by Iowa State University, Department of Economics in its series Staff General Research Papers with number 11446.

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Publication status: Published in Journal of International Economics, May 2007, Vol. 72, No. 1, pp. 1-21.
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Keywords: Optimal exchange rates; Asset market segmentation;

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