The turmoil in credit markets has brought to the fore again the negative implications of the volatility of foreign bank-intermediated flows to emerging countries. This paper examines whether the adoption of a hard-peg regime can reduce shocks in foreign capital inflows. Using...

We compare the behavior of short term interest rates in hard-peg and floating-exchange-rate countries. We use a framework which allows both domestic and foreign factors to play a role in the determination of interest rates and assess them empirically for eight Latin American countries between...

We compare the behavior of short term interest rates in hard-peg and floating-exchange-rate countries. We use a framework which allows both domestic and foreign factors to play a role in the determination of interest rates and assess them empirically for eight Latin American countries between...