IMF Working Papers

IMF Working Papers
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1018-5941
The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. With nearly 300 released each year, working papers cover a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and national and international economic developments.
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Are Emerging Market Countries Learning to Float?

Are Emerging Market Countries Learning to Float?
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Volume/Issue:
2005/98
Series:
IMF Working Papers
Author(s):
Dalia Hakura
Publisher:
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Published Date:
May 2005
DOI:
http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451861174.001
ISBN:
9781451861174
ISSN:
1018-5941
Page:
34
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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