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Float in Order to Fix? Lessons from Emerging Markets for EU Accession Countries

Title
Float in Order to Fix? [electronic resource]: Lessons from Emerging Markets for EU Accession Countries / Jorge Braga de Macedo and Helmut Reisen
Author
Macedo, Jorge Braga de.
Publication
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2003.

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Additional Authors
Reisen, Helmut.
Description
32 p.; 21 x 29.7cm.
Summary
The so-called "accession economies" preparing to enter the European Union are experiencing increased inward capital flows based upon positive interest spreads and expectations of currency appreciation. While the authorities of these countries have tried to manage these flows and to prevent unjustified appreciation of their currencies, the policy mix they may be tempted to apply can benefit from experiences elsewhere.Episodes of heavy capital inflows are well known to emerging markets and have often ended in tears. The 1990s saw three separate regional currency crises: the European crisis of 1992-93, the Latin American crisis 1994-95, and the Asian crisis 1997- 98 followed by crises in Russia and Brazil, and recently by Turkey and Argentina.Obviously, a major currency crisis every 24 months is too much for policy makers' comfort. The virulence, speed and contagion of financial crises that have hit prospective entrants to rich-country clubs repeatedly over the past two decades have ...
Series Statement
OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 1815-1949 ; no.218
Uniform Title
OECD Development Centre Working Papers, no.218.
Subject
Development
LCCN
10.1787/664633553338
OCLC
oecd-lib-003598
Author
Macedo, Jorge Braga de.
Title
Float in Order to Fix? [electronic resource]: Lessons from Emerging Markets for EU Accession Countries / Jorge Braga de Macedo and Helmut Reisen
Imprint
Paris : OECD Publishing, 2003.
Series
OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 1815-1949 ; no.218
OECD Development Centre Working Papers, 1815-1949 ; no.218.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/664633553338
Indexed Term
Development
Added Author
Reisen, Helmut.
Other Standard Identifier
10.1787/664633553338 doi
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