Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33378 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1798
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We test the significance of the relationship between the exchange rate regime and the degree of structural reforms by estimating panel regressions for a world and an OECD country sample. The empirical results suggest a positive correlation between on the one side the adoption of an exchange rate rule and on the other side overall structural reforms as well as reforms in the money and banking sector in the broad country sample. For government size and for market regulation, we do not find any robust significant effect, however. The results do not confirm the main implication of Calmfors-type models, namely a higher degree of reforms under monetary policy autonomy. They corroborate conditional policy convergence and, partly, that limiting monetary policy autonomy fosters structural reforms.
Subjects: 
exchange rates
monetary policy regime
liberalisation
panel data
political economy of reform
JEL: 
D78
E52
E61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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