Exchange Rate Monitoring Bands: Theory and Policy
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Authors
Corrado, Luisa
Miller, Marcus
Zhang, Lei
Publication Date
2004-06-16Series
Cambridge Working Papers in Economics
Publisher
Faculty of Economics
Language
en_GB
Type
Working Paper
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Corrado, L., Miller, M., & Zhang, L. (2004). Exchange Rate Monitoring Bands: Theory and Policy. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.5406
Abstract
Recent empirical research by Mark Taylor and coauthors has found evidence of hybrid dynamics for real exchange rates. While there is a random walk near equilibrium, for real exchange rates some distance from equilibrium there is mean-reversion which increases with the degree of misalignment. An interesting question is whether this nonlinear mean-reversion might be policy-induced. John Williamson (1998), for example, has proposed a �monitoring band� in which there is no intervention near equilibrium but there is substantial intervention triggered by exchange rate deviations outside a preset band. In this paper we develop a theoretical model of such a monitoring band to see whether it can generate patterns of nonlinear mean-reversion akin to those reported in empirical research.
Keywords
Classification-JEL: D52, F31, G12, monitoring band, non-linear mean-reversion, near random walk dynamics
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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.5406
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