Efficiency costs of Myanmar's multiple exchange rate regime /
Myanmar's multiple exchange rate system creates various economic distortions. This paper describes the exchange rate practices in Myanmar, develops a model of foreign exchange markets, and presents the efficiency costs imposed by quasi-fiscal operation under the current exchange rate regime. Th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
©2008.
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Colección: | IMF working paper ;
WP/08/199. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Introduction; II. Multiple Exchange Rate Regime in Myanmar; Box 1. Myanmar's Multiple Exchange Rate System; III. A Model for Myanmar's Foreign Exchange Markets; A. Preliminary Considerations; B. Model Description; IV. Quantitative Analyses; V. Sensitivity Analysis; VI. Summary of Findings; References; Figures; 1. Segmented Foreign Exchange Markets and Conceptual Foreign Exchange Rates; 2. Myanmar's Parallel Market Exchange Rate and its Premium over the Official Exchange Rate from 1960; 3. Efficiency Effects in the Public Sector Trade
- 4. Efficiency Effects in the Private Sector TradeTables; 1. Net Efficiency Losses Relative to the Value of Trade Flows; 2. Estimated Price Elasticities of Trade Flows in the Earlier Studies; 3. Net Efficiency Loss Estimates under the Baseline Parameters (2004/05-2006/07); 4. Net Efficiency Loss Estimates under the Baseline Parameters (2004/05-2006/07) (Relative to Estimated Nominal GDP); 5. Sensitivity of Estimated Net Efficiency Losses to Assumed Parameters (2006/07)