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Managing a floating rate has also allowed Latin American countries to accumulate a significant level of international reserves.
Some, like Germany, are in the eurozone (the Netherlands); others have pegged their currency to the euro unilaterally (Switzerland), while still others maintain a floating exchange rate (Sweden).
There is a simple fix to this problem – require money-market funds to show the actual floating value of their assets, so that everyone understands that it is not a fixed number.
Floating the renminbi, for example, is a dangerous option.
Developed countries’ currencies have been floating against each other for several decades, but this has been only partly true of emerging and developing countries.
And floating and fixed exchange-rate regimes coexist uneasily, because volatility tends to affect the floating currencies (often the euro, and recently the Latin American currencies).
With floating exchange rates, it is not.
As the region moved from hard exchange-rate pegs to floating rates, Asian currencies plunged – with drops against the dollar ranging from 28% in South Korea and roughly 37% in Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines to almost 80% in Indonesia.
Though insignificant in overall trade terms, especially when compared with the volatility of floating exchange-rate regimes, the renminbi’s unexpected weakening sparked a global furor.
Nearly all mortgages have floating rates that vary with the five-year loan rate set by the People’s Bank.
They can begin by viewing accession countries' early adoption of the Euro more favorably, both for countries with a currency board and for those with floating exchange rates.
If the state bowed before the challenge it faced, “France would be no more than a poor, broken toy floating on an ocean of uncertainty,” he warned.
Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, developed economies with floating exchange rates, do not want to encourage currency manipulation.
Floating the exchange rate would expose the country to instabilities that would lead to a host of further problems, particularly the country's shaky banking system.
2.Fixed or floating?
In my view, it needs not only to shun its traditional role as defender of pegged rates but actively to support (dirty) floating rates for most nations.
And, to lend credence to that claim, the two smaller Soviet-era aircraft carriers that were purchased with the Varyag in 1998-2000 were developed into floating museums.
What was touted as a floating casino is now being launched as the floating centerpiece of China’s growing naval prowess.
Unlike floating ice, which does nothing to the sea level when it melts, there is enough of this ice sheet above the surface that it could raise the sea level by something like 20 feet if it glaciated into the ocean, inundating coastal cities everywhere.
If the country has a floating exchange-rate regime, the currency depreciates, too.
It is clear from the last three decades of floating currencies that market-determined exchange rates tend to swing widely and persistently from parity levels that would make comparable goods sell at comparable prices in different countries.
Unification of onshore and offshore markets is more important than a floating exchange rate in determining whether the International Monetary Fund will include the renminbi in the basket of currencies used to determine the value of its reserve asset, the Special Drawing Right.
In a floating exchange rate system, a currency should weaken in the face of chronic weakness in the economy.
The debate about the timing and technical form of euroization must address which monetary regime--full-fledged euroization or floating exchange rates--is more effective in lowering risk premiums in the candidate countries.
Premature euroization would keep interest rates low, but it could create a large gap between an imprudently low official inflation risk premium and the inflation risk premium that would be set by an independent monetary policy with floating exchange rates.
The scenario of the early 1970's was replayed with floating rates in the mid-1980's, with the meetings of the major countries' finance ministers first forcing down the Yen and the D-mark against the dollar, and then trying in 1987 to hold rates stable.
In developed countries with floating exchange rates, a drop in foreign lending can be expansionary if currency depreciation stimulates exports.
Floating exchange rates.
In a pure form, clean floating, the central bank does not intervene in the market to affect the exchange rate though it (or the government) may engage in exchange transactions in the course of its other activities.
In practice, dirty floating is more common: the central bank intervenes from time to time to affect the exchange rate but does not announce in advance any specific value that it will seek to maintain.
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