This paper develops a new econometric framework to estimate and classify exchange rate regimes. They are classified into four distinct categories: fixed exchange rates, BBC (band, basket and crawl), managed floating, and freely floating. The procedure captures the patterns of exchange rate...

Empirical (employing the Blanchard-Perotti framework) and modeling (using a country-specific DSGE model) approaches are used to estimate fiscal multipliers by policy instrument for Bolivia, to evaluate possible adjustments in a fiscal consolidation strategy. Multipliers are also estimated using...

One of the main reasons to dollarize an emerging market economy is to eliminate high, persistent, and volatile inflation. To be effective, dollarization must generate sufficient credibility, which in turn depends critically on whether its expected probability of reversal is low. Argentina once...

This paper examines the stabilization role of the flexible exchange rate in theface of asymmetric shocks for one of the prominent emerging markets and openeconomies, India, using a sign-identified structural Bayesian vector autoregressionmodel over the post reform period 1996-2019. My results...

This article investigates the role of monetary policies in the success of exchange rate regime transition and the mitigation of related risks. We adopted a comparative methodology for three types of regime switches using 3 GARCH family models and data from 6 African countries over two decades....

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. The Reform Trajectory of China’s Economy -- Chapter 2. Reform and Opening Up: A ‘Matter of Life and Death -- Chapter 3. The Reform Path: From Grassroot Reforms to Party-State Capitalism -- Part II. The Big Picture of China’s Economy Today -- Chapter 4....