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Comparing Currency Board Automatic Mechanism in Bulgaria, Estonia and Lithuania

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  • K. Hristov
  • M. Mihaylov
  • Nikolay Nenovsky

    (Bulgarian National Bank - Head of Monetary and Financial Analysis Department)

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The paper presents a cross-country analysis of the second generation of currency boards (CB) introduced in three East European countries: Bulgaria, Estonia and Lithuania. We focus on their institutional, legal and political characteristics which are closely associated with the operation of the automatic mechanism (AM) of currency boards. The presence of an automatic mechanism within the framework of the currency board is often cited as a major counterpoint to the "discretion and subjectivity" of a classical central bank. Since there is no precise definition of automatic mechanisms in the literature, we define it as: "the presence of a positive cointegration relationship between the balance of payments and the reserve money (or money supply) and absence of discretionary variables in the model." When discretionary variables are present in the model in one form or another, we may speak of a "mechanism for adjustment through discretion - conscious or unconscious." Within the framework of the second generation of currency boards, we reduce the channel of discretion to the presence of atypical balance sheet items and employment of a number of monetary policy instruments. We seek in this article to compare currency board automatic mechanism in Bulgaria, Estonia and Lithuania.L'article procède d'une analyse transversale par pays de la deuxième génération des "bureaux d'émission" (currency boards) introduits dans trois pays de l'Europe de l'Est. L'accent est mis sur les caractéristiques institutionnelles, juridiques et politiques qui sont étroitement associées à l'opération du mécanisme automatique (MA) des bureaux d'émission. L'existence d'un mécanisme automatique dans la structure d'un bureau d'émission est souvent mise en avant comme l'argument majeur à l'encontre de la "discrétion" et la "subjectivité" d'une banque centrale classique. Parce qu'il n'existe aucune définition précise du mécanisme automatique dans l
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  • K. Hristov & M. Mihaylov & Nikolay Nenovsky, 2001. "Comparing Currency Board Automatic Mechanism in Bulgaria, Estonia and Lithuania," Post-Print halshs-00259892, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00259892
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    1. Minea, Alexandru & Rault, Christophe, 2011. "External monetary shocks and monetary integration: Evidence from the Bulgarian currency board," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 28(5), pages 2271-2281, September.
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    5. Ivan Todorov & Mariana Usheva & Stoyan Tanchev & Petar Yurukov, 2020. "Does a discretionary policy or an automatic adjustment mechanism determine monetary conditions in Bulgaria?," Economic Thought journal, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Economic Research Institute, issue 4, pages 95-114.
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    10. Sutela, Pekka, 2001. "Managing capital flows in Estonia and Latvia," BOFIT Discussion Papers 17/2001, Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition.
    11. Dalia Grigonyté, 2003. "Impact of Currency Boards on Fiscal Policy in Central and Eastern European Countries," Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, vol. 36(2), pages 111-133, June.
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    15. Jérôme Blanc & Jean-François Ponsot, 2004. "Crédibilité et currency board : le cas lituanien," Revue d'Économie Financière, Programme National Persée, vol. 75(2), pages 113-127.
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