Pegged exchange rates are often pointed out as more prone to risk of overvaluation, because their real exchange rates have a tendency to appreciate. We check this assumption empirically over a large sample of emerging and developing countries, by using two databases for de facto classifications...

La longue recession de l'economie mondiale dans les annees 1990 redonne de l'eclat aux conceptions financieres du cycle economique. La mode du cycle reel, qui avait prevalu dans le sillage de la nouvelle economie classique, a du mal a apprehender les evenements qui se sont succede depuis 1989,...