We analyze the long-run and short-run implications of financial liberalization in a small open economy. Our main results are as follows. First, whether financial deregulation in one sector can improve production efficiency may depend on financial regulation in other sectors. Second, financial...

Opinion is divided on whether it is better to have a single world   money or variable exchange rates.  Pope, Selten and von Hagen (2003)   propose that fresh light would be shed via an analysis that allows   for seven complexity impacts on the exchange rate that are   underplayed...

The paper traces the dangers in the closed economy perspective of a   monetary policy focused on a domestic inflation goal under a clean   float.  Field evidence of the damage wrought from this perspective is   reinforced by that from a laboratory experiment.  The laboratory  ...