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Exchange Rate Overshooting and the Costs of Floating

Currency crises are usually associated with large nominal and real depreciations, according to the authors. In some countries depreciations are perceived to be very costly (‘fear of floating’). In this paper, the authors try to understand the reasons behind the fear.

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