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Exchange Rate Monitoring Bands: Theory and Policy

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Luisa Corrado (University of Cambridge)
Marcus Miller (University of Warwick)
Lei Zhang (University of Warwick)

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Recent empirical research by Mark Taylor and coauthors has found evidence of hybrid dynamics for the real exchange rate. While there is a random walk near equilibrium, for real exchange rates some distance from equilibrium there is mean-reversion which increases with the degree of misalignment. An interesting question is whether this nonlinear mean-reversion is policy-induced. John Williamson (1998) for example, has proposed a "monitoring band" in which there is no intervention near equilibrium but there is substantial intervention triggered by exchange rate deviations outside a preset band. In this paper we develop a theoretical model for a stylised monitoring band to see whether it can generate patterns of nonlinear mean-reversion akin to those reported in empirical research

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Paper provided by Money Macro and Finance Research Group in its series Money Macro and Finance (MMF) Research Group Conference 2006 with number 146.

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Keywords: Monitoring Band; Non-linear Mean-Reversion; Near Random Walk Dynamics;

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D52 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Incomplete Markets
F31 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Exchange
G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing

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