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Collapsing Exchange Rate Regime Under Optimal Monetary Control
Author(s) -
Hung N. M.,
Quyen N. V.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
pacific economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1468-0106
pISSN - 1361-374X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0106.00053
Subject(s) - economics , monetary economics , exchange rate , exchange rate regime , small open economy , stock (firearms) , interest rate , foreign exchange reserves , fixed exchange rates , control (management) , mechanical engineering , management , engineering
In this paper, we analyse the problem of optimal domestic credit expansion for a small open economy. We show that (i) the transition from the fixed to the flexible exchange rate regime proceeds smoothly with no speculative attack on the central bank's foreign reserves; (ii) once the exchange rate has floated, it will never be optimal to repeg it afterward; (iii) even under uncertainty, there will not be any speculative attack; however, the optimal rate of credit expansion jumps discontinuously at the date of complete depletion of the known stock of foreign reserves.