Introduction : book in brief / Marcos Chamon, David Hofman, Nicolás E. Magud, and Alejandro Werner. Why intervene? / Marcos Chamon and NIcolás E. Magud -- A taxonomy of intervention / Oscar A. Hendrick, Nicolás E. Magud, and Asad Qureshi -- The effectiveness of intervention / Marcos Chamon,...

Foreign exchange intervention is widely used as a policy tool, particularly in emerging markets, but many facets of this tool remain limited, especially in the context of flexible exchange rate regimes. The Latin American experience can be informative because some of its largest countries...

This paper studies the Mexican and Israeli experience with a target zone. The first part of the paper develops a model of exchange rate determination under a target zone regime with stochastic realignments, and examines the conditions under which the adoption of the target zone, instead of a...

Several stabilization attempts in the 1980s in Argentina and Brazil followed a two-stage approach. In the first stage, some partial and temporary measures were taken to achieve a very drastic fall in the inflation rate. In the second stage, which sometimes never materialized, the fiscal reform...

Este trabajo desarrolla un modelo de determinacion del tipo de cambio donde la unica causa de las fluctuaciones es la expectativa de una realineacion. En este modelo se considera la banda cambiaria optima como la que minimiza una combinacion lineal de la varianza asintotica de las desviaciones...