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- Chapter 5
The International Monetary System
and Exchange Rate Arrangements
- Objectives
• To classify international monetary systems
• To outline the history of exchange rate arrangements
• To outline the pros and cons of fixed and flexible
exchange rates
• To examine the Australian exchange rate
arrangements
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- Definition
• The IMS is the framework of rules, regulations and
conventions that govern the financial relations
among countries
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- Components of the IMS
• A public component consisting of a series of
agreements
• A private component represented by the banking and
finance industry
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- Classification according to reserve
assets
• Pure commodity standards (e.g. the gold standard)
• Pure fiat standards
• Mixed standards (e.g. the Bretton Woods system)
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- Classification according to
flexibility of exchange rates
• Several systems may arise by restricting, or
otherwise, the exchange rate
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- Fixed exchange rates
• The exchange rate is fixed by the central bank and is
not allowed to move
• The FX market is likely to be out of equilibrium
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- Perfectly flexible exchange rates
• The exchange rate moves continuously, propelled by
market forces, to maintain equilibrium in the FX
market
• Under this system, currencies appreciate and
depreciate
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- Fixed but adjustable exchange
rates
• Countries alter the fixed values of their exchange
rates
• Devaluation and revaluation are implemented to
‘correct’ some economic fundamentals such as the
BOP
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- Fixed exchange rates and flexible
within a band
• Exchange rates are flexible within upper and lower
limits defined by a band around the par value
• Central bank intervention is required to keep the
exchange rate within the band
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- Crawling peg
• The par value of the exchange rate is revised
periodically according to its recent behaviour or
economic indicators such as inflation
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- Dual exchange rates
• A commercial (fixed) rate is used for imports and
exports
• A financial (flexible) rate is used for trading in
financial assets
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- Managed floating
• The exchange rate is flexible, but the central bank
intervenes to limit the frequency and amplitude of
exchange rate fluctuations
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- Target zones
• Major countries establish a set of mutually consistent
targets for real effective exchange rates
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- The classical gold standard
• This system operated between approximately 1870
and 1914
• It is remembered with nostalgia because the world
economy prospered during that period
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- Pillars of the gold standard
• The monetary authorities fix the price of gold in
terms of their currencies, which produces a fixed
exchange rate
• The market exchange rate can move above or below
the fixed rate by certain limits: the gold points
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- The collapse of the gold standard
• The gold standard collapsed in 1914 as the warring
countries suspended the convertibility of their
currencies and prohibited the export of gold
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- The inter-war period
• Between the end of World War I and 1926 a system
of flexible exchange rates was adopted
• In 1925, Britain re-established the convertibility of the
pound into gold, signalling the creation of the gold
exchange standard
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- The collapse of the gold exchange
standard
• In 1931 Britain abolished the convertibility of the
pound, bringing to an end the era of the gold
exchange standard
• This was followed by the decade of the Great
Depression (1931-1939)
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- Failure of the inter-war experiment:
reasons
• The golden age was a myth
• The world economy experienced significant changes
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