Defusing currency crises: Empirical evidence from emerging market-economies
Abstract
The behavior of policy and state variables is compared between episodes of defused and full-blown currency crises for 22 emerging-market economies. Currency crises are identified by an index of exchange market pressure derived from a monetary model of exchange rate determination. Using graphical tools, non-parametric statistical tests and logit estimation, this paper finds no evidence of expansionary fiscal or monetary policies prior to full-blown currency crises. It also finds that in an environment of declining output, rising unemployment and high inflation, currency intervention is ineffective in defusing a currency crisis and that, in a crisis situation, contractionary monetary policy is effective in stabilizing the exchange rate. ^
Subject Area
Economics, Finance
Recommended Citation
Joseph Michael J Aguinaldo,
"Defusing currency crises: Empirical evidence from emerging market-economies"
(January 1, 2000).
ETD Collection for Fordham University.
Paper AAI9955959.
http://fordham.bepress.com/dissertations/AAI9955959