Using an optimizing model we compare alternative monetary policy rules and exchange rate regimes for a small stochastic open economy with imperfect competition and short run price rigidity. The criteria to choose among rules and regimes are obtained using a welfare criterion derived from the utility function of the representative agent. The main findings of this paper are that, depending on wha...

This paper examines the question of whether pegging exchange rates is a good strategy for emergingmarket countries. Although pegging the exchange rate provides a nominal anchor for emerging market countries that can help them to control inflation, the analysis in this paper does not provide support for this strategy for the conduct of monetary policy. First there are the usual criticisms of exc...

we compare alternative monetary policies for iranian economy that this paper compares alternative monetary policy rules for iranian economy in faces to both internal and external shocks. for this purpose, we investigate the responses of macroeconomic variables respected to the money base and the terms of trade shocks, under three types of monetary rules including fixed exchange rate, inflation ...

Finding a monetary regime that can deliver some form of price stability, as well as satisfactory economic performance, always has been explained more convincingly in theory than in practice. Consequently, governments have, over time, experimented with policies ranging from some metallic standard (for example, gold, silver, or bimetallic) to various forms of exchange rate pegging (for example, B...

Given the increasing importance of achieving low and stable inflation rate during the last decades, adopting the most suitable practices to implement monetary policies has always been of concern by monetary authorities of different countries. Inflation targeting (IT) regime is the most recent strategy to guide monetary policies that have been introduced following the occurrence of exchange rate...

the subject of monetary policy orientation and tailoring a framework within which the credibility and desirability of the policies and the policy makers is enhanced, while the most important goal of policies, i.e reaching to and preserving a low and stable inflation rate is achieved, has recently been a controversial issue for a large number of economists. in fact the necessity arised since the...

The paper documents the use of foreign exchange intervention (FXI) across countries and monetary regimes, with special attention to its under inflation targeting (IT). We find significant differences between advanced (AEs) emerging market economies (EMEs). former group conduct FXI limitedly broadly symmetrically, while this policy instrument in EMEs is pervasive mostly asymmetric, a bias toward...