TY - JOUR
T1 - Inflation under alternative exchange rate regimes
T2 - What happens when countries differ in size?
AU - Hughes Hallett, Andrew J.
AU - Kavanagh, Ella
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - A three-country model is used to analyze how country size affects inflation under different exchange rate regimes. Two countries, an anchor country (leader) and a pegging country (follower), are examined where the latter differs in size. We find that the leader's preference for floating over pegging is unaffected by the follower's size except in the case where the follower is very small. However, as the follower gets smaller, the leader's inflation worsens under floating but improves under the single-currency peg. For the follower, as it gets smaller, its inflation performance improves when it floats its currency. But which regime is preferred is unclear.
AB - A three-country model is used to analyze how country size affects inflation under different exchange rate regimes. Two countries, an anchor country (leader) and a pegging country (follower), are examined where the latter differs in size. We find that the leader's preference for floating over pegging is unaffected by the follower's size except in the case where the follower is very small. However, as the follower gets smaller, the leader's inflation worsens under floating but improves under the single-currency peg. For the follower, as it gets smaller, its inflation performance improves when it floats its currency. But which regime is preferred is unclear.
KW - EMU
KW - Exchange rate regimes
KW - Inflation
KW - Macroeconomic performance
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/0035039938
U2 - 10.1023/A:1008380312940
DO - 10.1023/A:1008380312940
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035039938
SN - 0923-7992
VL - 12
SP - 145
EP - 161
JO - Open Economies Review
JF - Open Economies Review
IS - 2
ER -