The series of crises, which have affected emerging markets in recent years, have reopened the debate on the most appropriate exchange regime for an emergent economy. In particular, all countries that experienced severe crises in the 1990s had some sort of fixed exchange rate regime, the majority...

This paper analyzes Latin America’s recent experience with the use of inflation targeting (IT) while the region has made substantial progress toward eradicating high inflation. The paper assesses the implementation and results of inflation targeting in Latin America from a broad perspective....

The purpose of this paper is to comment on the paper by Berg et. al. on exchange rate and monetary regime options for Latin America. The purpose of Berg et. al. paper is to evaluate the relative merits of the two exchange rate regimes to which most Latin American countries are converging today:...