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Off-the-record target zones: theory with an application to Hong Kong’s currency board

Off-the-record target zones: theory with an application to Hong Kong’s currency board Abstract This paper provides a modelling framework for evaluating the exchange rate dynamics of a target zone regime with undisclosed bands. We generalize the literature to allow for asymmetric one-sided regimes. Market participants’ beliefs concerning an undisclosed band change as they learn more about central bank intervention policy. We apply the model to Hong Kong’s one-sided currency board mechanism. In autumn 2003, the Hong Kong dollar appreciated from close to 7.80 per US dollar to 7.70, as investors feared that the currency board would be abandoned. In the wake of this appreciation, the monetary authorities finally revamped the regime as a symmetric two-sided system with a narrow exchange rate band. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics de Gruyter

Off-the-record target zones: theory with an application to Hong Kong’s currency board

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Abstract

Abstract This paper provides a modelling framework for evaluating the exchange rate dynamics of a target zone regime with undisclosed bands. We generalize the literature to allow for asymmetric one-sided regimes. Market participants’ beliefs concerning an undisclosed band change as they learn more about central bank intervention policy. We apply the model to Hong Kong’s one-sided currency board mechanism. In autumn 2003, the Hong Kong dollar appreciated from close to 7.80 per US dollar to 7.70, as investors feared that the currency board would be abandoned. In the wake of this appreciation, the monetary authorities finally revamped the regime as a symmetric two-sided system with a narrow exchange rate band.

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Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics – de Gruyter

Published: Sep 1, 2013

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