The East Asian Dollar Standard, Fear of Floating, and Original Sin

Review of Development Economics - Tập 8 Số 3 - Trang 331-360 - 2004
Ronald I. McKinnon1, Gunther Schnabl2
1Stanford University, Stanford, USA
2Tübingen University, Tübingen, Germany

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AbstractBefore the crisis of 1997/98, the East Asian economies—except for Japan but including China—pegged their currencies to the US dollar. To avoid further turmoil, the IMF argues that these currencies should float more freely. However, the authors’ econometric estimations show that the dollar's predominant weight in East Asian currency baskets has returned to its pre‐crisis levels. By 2002, the day‐to‐day volatility of each country's exchange rate against the dollar had again become negligible. Most governments were rapidly accumulating a “war chest” of official dollar reserves, which portends that this exchange rate stabilization will come to extend over months or quarters. From the doctrine of “original sin” applied to emerging‐market economies, the authors argue that this fear of floating is entirely rational from the perspective of each individual country. And their joint pegging to the dollar benefits the East Asian dollar bloc as a whole, although Japan remains an important outlier.

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Review of Development Economics

Tập 8 Số 3

331-360

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