This paper focuses on the portfolio-balance model as a framework for addressing several unresolved issues about the behavior of exchange rates. A major objective is to contribute to an understanding of the relative importance of the different channels through which current account imbalances may...

The management of financial crises in emerging markets is a vital and high-stakes challenge in an increasingly global economy. For this reason, it's also a highly contentious issue in today's public policy circles. In this book, leading economists-many of whom have also participated in policy...

The paper considers the merits of rules and discretion for monetary policy when the structure of the macroeconomic model and the probability distributions of disturbances are not well defined. It is argued that when it is costly to delay policy reactions to seldom-experienced shocks until formal...