The Evolution of Exchange Rate Policy and Capital Controls in Australia

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Debelle ◽  
Michael Plumb
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
Capital Controls ◽  
Flexible Exchange Rate ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Floating Exchange Rate ◽  
Rate Policy ◽  
External Forces

After the end of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, exchange rate policy in Australia moved through several regimes over an extended period. The overarching theme was to increase flexibility and efficiency in the Australian currency market and the financial system more generally. This paper documents Australia's gradual move from a fixed to a floating exchange rate and the abolition of capital controls, with an emphasis on the thinking behind various reforms and the practical difficulties encountered during the reform process. Policy reform was often in response to external forces exposing deficiencies in the prevailing system, rather than through a carefully planned path to greater flexibility. Ultimately, a combination of domestic and international factors rendered the move to a flexible exchange rate largely inevitable.

MANAGING FLEXIBILITY: JAPANESE EXCHANGE RATE POLICY, 1971–2007

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (03) ◽  
pp. 335-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHINJI TAKAGI
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Capital Controls ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Foreign Exchange Intervention ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Capital Account Convertibility ◽  
Rate Policy ◽  
Account Convertibility ◽  
Leaning Against The Wind

The paper reviews Japan's exchange rate policy from the end of the Bretton Woods era to the present. The Japanese authorities used various tools to manage the yen–dollar exchange rate over much of this period. The most dominant was official foreign exchange intervention, which in most instances took the form of "leaning against the wind". Capital controls were also used but, with full capital account convertibility, ceased to exist as an instrument of exchange rate policy by the mid-1980s. Following the post-Plaza appreciation of the yen, the authorities eased monetary policy to arrest the appreciating pressure. The possible role of exchange rate policy in the great asset inflation that followed, however, remains unanswered. More recently, exchange rate policy during the period of prolonged stagnation and fragile recovery was made subordinate to the overall stance of macroeconomic policy. In this regard, particularly striking in terms of scale and frequency was the "great intervention" of 2003–2004. Equally striking has been the total absence of official intervention since. It would require a renewed substantial volatility of the yen to know whether this indeed marks a permanent shift in Japan's exchange rate policy.

Floating exchange rate of the russian ruble: myth or reality?

2014 ◽  
pp. 50-67
Author(s):  
A. Kiyutsevskaya
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Flexible Exchange Rate ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Currency Market ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Floating Exchange Rate ◽  
Rate Policy ◽  
Major Transformation

Active globalization of the Russian economy has required more flexible exchange rate policy. By 2015, the Bank of Russia plans to finish transition to the floating exchange rate. Though the regulator has been aspiring to achieve this goal since 2007, the exchange rate policy’s mechanism has been changed only after sharp deterioration of external economic conditions in 2008—2009. Expanding bounds of a currency corridor and reducing volumes of carried out interventions, the Bank of Russia continues to weaken the influence on internal currency market, limited to leveling the speculative expectations of economic agents. Stages and reached results of this major transformation of exchange rate policy are investigated in the article.

Fear of Free Floating or Forced Exchange Rate Fixing

2004 ◽  
pp. 112-122
Author(s):  
O. Osipova
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Exchange Rates ◽  
Inflation Targeting ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Float Exchange Rate ◽  
Floating Exchange Rate ◽  
Rate Policy ◽  
Exchange Rate Arrangements ◽  
Pass Through

After the financial crisis at the end of the 1990 s many countries rejected fixed exchange rate policy. However actually they failed to proceed to announced "independent float" exchange rate arrangement. This might be due to the "fear of floating" or an irreversible result of inflation targeting central bank policy. In the article advantages and drawbacks of fixed and floating exchange rate arrangements are systematized. Features of new returning to exchange rates stabilization and possible risks of such policy for Russia are considered. Special attention is paid to the issue of choice of a "target" currency composite which can minimize external inflation pass-through.

Exchange Rate Regimes and Economic Stability

2010 ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
S. Smirnov
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Inflation Targeting ◽  
Exchange Rate Regime ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Real Sector ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Exogenous Shocks ◽  
Floating Exchange Rate ◽  
Rate Policy ◽  
Managed Floating

The Bank of Russia intends to introduce inflation targeting policy and exchange rate free floating regime in three years. Exogenous shocks absorption which stabilizes the real sector of economy is usually considered to be one of the advantages of free floating exchange rate policy. However, our research based on the analysis of 25 world largest economies exchange rates and industrial production during the crisis of 2008-2009 does not confirm this hypothesis. The article also analyzes additional risks associated with free floating exchange rate regime in Russia and presents some arguments in favor of managed floating exchange rate regime.

scholarly journals Capital Controls or Real Exchange Rate Policy? A Pecuniary Externality Perspective

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Benigno ◽  
Huigang Chen ◽  
Alessandro Rebucci ◽  
Christopher Otrok ◽  
Eric Young
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Real Exchange Rate ◽  
Capital Controls ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Pecuniary Externality ◽  
Rate Policy

Switching to Floating Exchange Rate in Russia under the Strategy of Price Stability

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (4) ◽  
pp. 11-29
Author(s):  
Sergey Dubinin ◽  
Nina Miklashevskaya
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Inflation Targeting ◽  
World Market ◽  
Emerging Countries ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The World ◽  
Floating Exchange Rate ◽  
Rate Policy

The article focuses on the implementation of the exchange rate policy of the Bank of Russia aimed to switch from the managed arrangement to floating under inflation targeting. It provides a theoretical framework of such policy with special regard to emerging countries. The main part of the article deals with the policy issues, which Russia has been facing within the western sanctions and oil price falling at the world market. It contains the analysis of risks, which countries implementing the switching to floating may be exposed to and which should be taken into account by government authorities. Special attention is paid to the measures of economic policy to minimize the risks. It is concluded that the switching to floating may be appropriate only in case of availability of a set of required conditions.

CHINA’S EXCHANGE RATE SYSTEM REFORM: TWO POTENTIAL MISTAKES AND THE RECOMMENDED LONG-TERM SYSTEM

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (02) ◽  
pp. 1640025
Author(s):  
PAUL S. L. YIP
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Capital Mobility ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Chinese Economy ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Rate System ◽  
Floating Exchange Rate ◽  
Rate Policy ◽  
Exchange Rate System

Further to the author’s recommended transitory and medium-term exchange rate system reforms that was implemented in China since July 2005, this paper explains that: (1) a long-term reform towards a floating exchange rate system with free capital mobility will cause huge damages to the Chinese economy. It then proposes a long-term exchange rate system that would probably benefit China the most; and (2) there is a serious mistake in China’s latest exchange rate policy: The Chinese central bank has mistakenly allowed the renminbi exchange rate to rise with the strong rebound of the US dollar. This will cause not only a substantial drag in China’s export and GDP growth, but will also eventually make China’s financial and economic system vulnerable to a highly disruptive correction in the renminbi exchange rate.

scholarly journals Capital Controls or Exchange Rate Policy? A Pecuniary Externality Perspective

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianluca Benigno ◽  
Christopher Otrok ◽  
Alessandro Rebucci ◽  
Eric R. Young ◽  
Huigang Chen
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Capital Controls ◽  
Exchange Rate Policy ◽  
Pecuniary Externality ◽  
Rate Policy
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