Exchange Rate Monitoring Bands: Theory and Policy

37 Pages Posted: 28 May 2002

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Luisa Corrado

University of Rome Tor Vergata Department of Economics and Finance

Marcus H. Miller

University of Warwick - Department of Economics; Institute for International Economics; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Lei Zhang

University of Warwick - Department of Economics

Date Written: April 2002

Abstract

Recent empirical research by Mark Taylor and co-authors has found evidence of hybrid dynamics for real exchange rates. 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 non-linear mean-reversion might be 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 of such a monitoring band to see whether it can generate patterns of non-linear mean-reversion akin to those reported in empirical research.

Keywords: Monitoring band, non-linear mean-reversion, near random walk dynamics

JEL Classification: D52, F31, G12

Suggested Citation

Corrado, Luisa and Miller, Marcus H. and Zhang, Lei, Exchange Rate Monitoring Bands: Theory and Policy (April 2002). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=314224

Luisa Corrado (Contact Author)

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Marcus H. Miller

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Lei Zhang

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