General Sites on Exchange Rate Regimes The IMF presents up-to-date evaluations of exchange rate policies: www.imf.org To find out about the exchange rate regime of a particular country, visit its central bank’s website. The list of all central bank websites is at: www.bis.org/cbanks.htm General sites on international macroeconomics The companion website to the intermediate macro text by Burda and Wyplosz: http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199264964/ The website for the introductory textbook Macroeconomics by Manfred Gärtner is a very useful site. It includes:
- free macro data on 19 macroeconomic time series for 19 countries:www.fgn.unisg.ch/eurmacro/macrodata/index.html
- very nice and concise descriptions of the IS-LM and AS-AD framework 'road map' section:www.fgn.unisg.ch/eurmacro/tutor/map.html Sites and documents specifically on the choice of exchange rate regimes See the free-to-download book from the Bank of England, The Choice of Exchange Rate Regime by Tony Latter: http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/education/ccbs/handbooks/ccbshb02.htm See especially the page on 'Exchange Rate Regime for Emerging Markets: "Middle" Regimes or "Corner" Solutions?': http://www.rgemonitor.com/63 For a historical perspective, see 'Exchange Rate Regime Choice in Historical Perspective' by Michael Bordo, NBER Working Paper No. w9654: papers.nber.org/papers/W9654 Also see the December 2002 paper by Eichengreen, 'Lessons of the Euro for the Rest of the World': emlab.berkeley.edu/users/eichengr/policy/viennajan2-03.pdf |