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5 - Exchange rate management: a partial review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2010

Reuven Glick
Affiliation:
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Michael Hutchison
Affiliation:
University of California
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Introduction

All countries, either explicitly or implicitly, have some form of exchange rate policy. This may involve doing nothing and letting the exchange rate fluctuate freely in response to market forces – a purely flexible exchange rate – or it may involve some kind of active intervention directed toward the attainment of certain specified objectives. Historically, a wide range of exchange rate policies have been adopted by individual nations in the world economy. In the recent past, the most dramatic change was the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1973, when the world moved generally from more fixed to more flexible exchange rate arrangements, although the regimes that individual economies chose to adopt were quite diverse.

This diversity of approaches to exchange rate policy is also characteristic of the Pacific Rim economies, which, while generally following the move toward more flexibility, have done so in a variety of ways and to various degrees. Thus, as Glick and Hutchison argue in Chapter 1 of this volume, the Pacific Rim region offers an excellent laboratory in which to compare various exchange rate arrangements and their consequences for monetary policy. Several of the developments are well documented by the relevant chapters in this volume. As discussed by Moreno in Chapter 6, during the 1970s both Taiwan and Korea maintained adjustable pegs to the U.S. dollar, and both economies adopted more flexible policies by the end of the decade.

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Exchange Rate Policy and Interdependence
Perspectives from the Pacific Basin
, pp. 99 - 137
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1994

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