Capital Controls, Two-Tiered Exchange Rate Systems and Exchange Rate Policy: The South African Experience

Capital Flows, Capital Controls, and Exchange Rate Policy

Many emerging market economies use alternative forms of capital controls. Often the use of capital controls is related to the defense of the exchange rate. This paper examines the welfare case for capital controls, and the interaction between capital controls and the exchange rate. The main question is whether capital controls may be justified, in order to gain independence in monetary policy, ...

Dual Exchange Rate Systems and Capital Controls: an Investigation

The welfare aspects of dual exchange rate systems are analyzed in this paper. The requirement that domestic linancial transactions with the rest of the world be undertaken at a special foreign exchange rate is found to be equivalent to levying a tariff on this class of international transactions. Hence, a dual exchange rate system and capital controls are shown to be essentially identical. In l...

Exchange Rate Policy of Iran

The exchange rate regime in Iran is practically fixed. The Central Bank of Iran (CBI) has committed itself to trying to bring about a particular exchange rate regime to meet two important targets: 1. Sustaining competitiveness of the economy, 2. Acquiring the share of foreign reserves in monetary base in a predetermined level. Since 2001 the share of foreign reserves in monetary base has i...

Capital controls and the volatility of South African exchange rates

Policy Time-Inconsistency: A Comparison of Managed Floating Exchange Rate and Controlled Exchange Rate Regimes

Some empirical and theoretical studies have emphasized on fixed exchange rate regime in controlling time inconsistency, while others consider the role of target zone regime as an important factor. Thus there is no general consensus to decide which exchange rate regime may bring about less time-inconsistency. The main purpose of this study is to investigate policy time-inconsistency in exchange ...