Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/68139 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Department of Economics Discussion Paper No. 06,05
Publisher: 
University of Kent, Department of Economics, Canterbury
Abstract: 
The paper presents evidence on exchange rate pass-through and the Fear of Floating hypothesis before and after Inflation Targeting for a set of developed and emerging market economies. We use a structural VAR model to estimate the effect of depreciations on prices. The results support the view of the previous literature that the pass-through is higher for emerging than for developed economies, and that it has decreased after the adoption of Inflation Targeting. We then use several different methodologies to examine the existence of Fear of Floating practices. We observe a drastic reduction in direct foreign exchange market intervention after the adoption of Inflation Targeting. As the exchange rate pass-through still matters for the attainment of the inflation targets, Fear of Floating seems to play only a minor role for most economies in our sample.
Subjects: 
Inflation Targeting
Exchange Rate Pass-Through
'Fear of Floating'
JEL: 
E31
E52
F31
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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