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Chapter 19: International Monetary Regimes

Chapter 19: International Monetary Regimes. To achieve: Fixed exchange rate Trade-off: Discretionary monetary policy to create elasticity of supply of currency or International capital mobility to create inelasticity of demand for currency. To achieve: Discretionary monetary policy

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Chapter 19: International Monetary Regimes

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  1. Chapter 19: International Monetary Regimes

  2. To achieve: Fixed exchange rate Trade-off: • Discretionary monetary policy to create elasticity of supply of currency or • International capital mobility to create inelasticity of demand for currency

  3. To achieve: Discretionary monetary policy Trade-off: • Fixed exchange rate to allow for inelasticity of supply of currency or • International capital mobility to create inelasticity of demand for currency

  4. To achieve: International capital mobility Trade-off: • Fixed exchange rate to allow for equilibrium price (floating exchange rate) or • Discretionary monetary policy to create elasticity of supply for currency

  5. International monetary regimes

  6. Gold standard • Domestic units of account were in terms of gold—by weight and purity • Allowed gold and bills of exchange to flow between nations unfettered U.S. 1 oz. gold = $20.00; Great Britain 1 oz. gold = £4 Exchange rates were dictated by the supply and demand conditions in the sterling bills market

  7. Gold standard system: • Self-equilibrating • Functioned without government intervention • Had exchange rate stability

  8. Bretton Woods System • Adopted by the first world countries in the final stages of World War II • Designed to overcome the flaws of the GS while maintaining the stability of fixed exchange rates

  9. Bretton Woods System • USD substituted gold as the free world's currency • Ensured a more elastic supply of international reserves • Allowed the U. S. to earn seigniorage to help offset the costs it incurred from fighting wars • U.S. was rendered the banker to more than half of the world’s economy

  10. Bretton Woods Agreement, July 1944 Established the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now the World Bank) “…the absence of a high degree of economic collaboration among the leading nations will…inevitably result in economic warfare that will be but the prelude and instigator of military warfare on an even vaster scale.” -- Harry Dexter White, US Department of the Treasury 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, NH (USA) for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference

  11. Bretton Woods Agreement, July 1944 Established the International Monetary Fund “The nations should consult and agree on international monetary changes which affect each other. They should outlaw practices which are agreed to be harmful to world prosperity, and they should assist each other to overcome short-term exchange difficulties.” July 22, 1944 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, NH (USA) for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference

  12. Bretton Woods Agreement, July 1944 Adopted the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) to regulate international trade. Proposed establishment of The International Trade Organization to regulate GATT. The ITO Charter was agreed to by the U.N. in March 1948, but never ratified by the U.S. Senate. In 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) was established. 730 delegates from all 44 Allied nations gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, NH (USA) for the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference

  13. To achieve: • Discretionary monetary policy and • International capital mobility Trade-off: • Fixed exchange rate Use managed float: the central bank allows market forces to determine second-to-second (day-to-day) fluctuations in exchange rates but intervenes if the currency grows too weak or too strong.

  14. Central bank intervention: • Unsterilized foreign exchange intervention Exchange: • International reserves • Assets denominated in foreign currencies • Gold, and • SDRs (Special Drawing Rights)for domestic currency

  15. Central bank intervention: • Unsterilized foreign exchange intervention Influence the FX rate via changes in MB: • Selling international reserves for domestic currency to appreciate the domestic currency. • Shift the demand for domestic currency in FX markets

  16. Central bank intervention: • Sterilized foreign exchange intervention • No net change in MB, no long-term impact on exchange rate Uses: • Short-term ruse • Signal to market

  17. Central bank intervention: Disadvantages • Run out of international reserves in a fruitless attempt to • prevent depreciation or • create appreciation • Require increasing or decreasing the MB counter to the needs of the domestic economy.

  18. Fixed rate or managed float: Costs Run out of international reserves: • Unable to use unsterilized foreign exchange intervention IMF lends, but: • Not lender of last resort • Requires fiscal austerity • Creates moral hazard

  19. Fixed rate or managed float: Benefits = monetary policy target similar to an inflation or money supply target: • Allows the developing nation’s central bank to figure out whether to increase or decrease MB and by how much • Effectively ties the domestic inflation rate to that of the anchor country • Instills confidence in the developing country’s macroeconomic performance

  20. Fixed rate or managed float: Benefits Dollarization = adopting an anchor currency = (- seigniorage revenue) + outsource monetary policy Hard peg = pegged to an anchor currency = outsource monetary policy

  21. Fixed rate or managed float: Benefits • Dollarization • Hard peg Difficult to maintain because: • Can create persistent imbalances between the developing and the anchor currencies due to changes in • Interest rates • Trade • Productivity

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