This chapter explains dollarization process in Turkey by an extended portfolio model where dollarization is determined by the relative rates of return of domestic and foreign currencies denominated assets, expected change in the exchange rate, exchange rate risk, and credibility of current...

This paper reviews recent experience with the choice of floating or fixed (“anchor”) exchange regimes in industrial and developing countries. It concludes that desirable differences between the two sets of regimes have narrowed, owing to the useful operational role of exchange rate margins...

Fixed exchange rates are less volatile than floating rates. But the volatility of macroeconomic variables such as money and output does not change very much across exchange rate regimes. This suggests that exchange rate models based only on macroeconomic fundamentals are unlikely to be very...

Dieses Lehrbuch behandelt die makroökonomische Rolle des Wechselkurses und des Wechselkurssystems. Neben flexiblen Wechselkursen werden auch feste Wechselkurse und damit verbundene Gefahren wie Währungskrisen im Detail analysiert. Diese dritte Auflage bietet verschiedene inhaltliche...