Set in the context of the recent theoretical and policy debates on appropriate exchange rate regimes for emerging market economies in a world of free capital mobility, the paper attempts to present the case for an intermediate exchange rate regime, drawing on recent theoretical and empirical...

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This paper argues that Brazil has become subject to new forms of external vulnerability, which led to one of the largest exchange rate depreciations among emerging markets in the recent global financial crisis. Going beyond traditional external vulnerabilities in the form of creditor-debtor...