Pegs, politics and petrification : exchange rate policy in Argentina and Brazil since the 1980s

Currency crises have long constituted one of the most important sources of politicoeconomic instability across middle-income emerging markets, with exchange rate pegs having been identified as key culprits. Given pegs’ propensity for boom-bust-cycles, it is thus puzzling that governments insist on i...

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Main Author: Bolten, Annika
Published: London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London) 2009
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550186