IMF paper finds ‘robust' relationship between exchange rate flexibility and external adjustment

Study revives argument made by late economist Milton Friedman

Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman

An International Monetary Fund working paper finds a "significant and empirically robust" relationship between exchange rate flexibility and the speed of economies' external adjustment – an argument originally made by Milton Friedman.

In Friedman Redux: External Adjustment and Exchange Rate Flexibility, authors Atish Ghosh, Mahvash Saeed Qureshi and Charalambos Tsangarides construct a data set of bilateral exchange rate regimes, which differentiates by degree of flexibility, as well as by direct

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