In the past few years, a new theory is being developed with respect to the level of the exchange rate under a system of freely floating exchange rates or even under fixed rates. In the past few years, ...

Canada’s flexible exchange rate has helped the economy adjust to external shocks and contributed to low and stable inflation, a senior Bank of Canada official said Monday. Speaking in Edmonton, deputy ...

Many economists argue that a flexible exchange rate regime is preferable to a fixed exchange rate regime because it helps to insulate the domestic economy from adverse external shocks. For example, ...

Lebanon's President Michel Aoun meets with Prime Minister Hassan Diab and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri at the presidential palace in Baabda Lebanon's President Michel Aoun meets with Prime Minister ...

This paper assesses the stabilization properties of fixed versus flexible exchange rate regimes and aims to answer this research question: Does greater exchange rate flexibility help an economy’s ...

COLOMBO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday welcomed Sri Lanka's policy shift towards a flexible exchange rate, saying it will help contain the trade deficit and ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's decision to make the exchange rate more flexible will return the central bank to the managed float in use before the 2011 uprising sent foreign investors and tourists packing ...

Egypt is “serious” about applying a flexible foreign-exchange rate, a senior International Monetary Fund official told Arabic TV channel Asharq, as the Mideast’s most populous nation works to restore ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It is a given in polite economic society that China should move toward a more ...

This paper investigates the impact of natural disasters on exchange rate movements in different country groups with different exchange rate regimes. Using a panel local projection model with a ...

The current VAT rate of Nigeria is among the lowest in the world and well below the rates in other ECOWAS member states. She mentioned this on the third day of her four days official visit to Nigeria ...