Monetary policy independence and floating exchange rates: what does the Brazilian evidence tell us?

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Autor(a) principal: GONÇALVES,CARLOS EDUARDO SOARES
Data de Publicação: 2004
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Revista de Economia Política
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572004000100030
Resumo: ABSTRACT Some authors have advocated that shifting from fixed exchange rates to floating regimes has not delivered better economic outcomes to developing countries. As the argument goes, pervasive fear of floating in these economies has prevented drops in real interest rates and, more importantly, has been a hindrance in the way towards more monetary policy autonomy. This paper presents evidence suggesting this may not be the case for Brazil. More precisely, there are signs that fear of floating was less acute here (presumably due to low exchange rate pass-through) than elsewhere, and also that policymakers are now targeting monetary policy principally to domestic objectives.
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title Monetary policy independence and floating exchange rates: what does the Brazilian evidence tell us?
spellingShingle Monetary policy independence and floating exchange rates: what does the Brazilian evidence tell us?
GONÇALVES,CARLOS EDUARDO SOARES
Exchange rate
floating exchange rate
monetary policy
title_short Monetary policy independence and floating exchange rates: what does the Brazilian evidence tell us?
title_full Monetary policy independence and floating exchange rates: what does the Brazilian evidence tell us?
title_fullStr Monetary policy independence and floating exchange rates: what does the Brazilian evidence tell us?
title_full_unstemmed Monetary policy independence and floating exchange rates: what does the Brazilian evidence tell us?
title_sort Monetary policy independence and floating exchange rates: what does the Brazilian evidence tell us?
author GONÇALVES,CARLOS EDUARDO SOARES
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Exchange rate
floating exchange rate
monetary policy
topic Exchange rate
floating exchange rate
monetary policy
description ABSTRACT Some authors have advocated that shifting from fixed exchange rates to floating regimes has not delivered better economic outcomes to developing countries. As the argument goes, pervasive fear of floating in these economies has prevented drops in real interest rates and, more importantly, has been a hindrance in the way towards more monetary policy autonomy. This paper presents evidence suggesting this may not be the case for Brazil. More precisely, there are signs that fear of floating was less acute here (presumably due to low exchange rate pass-through) than elsewhere, and also that policymakers are now targeting monetary policy principally to domestic objectives.
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