By Sebastian Edwards
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Both experiments have to date been unsuccessful. Taking our cue from the G-7 countries, we will assume in the remainder of this chapter that precommitments against domestic borrowing and international borrowing are not practical, presumably because the advantages of being able to run deficits at times are too great. We take as given that the country in question is opening up its capital markets. There do exist, after all, a few countries like Korea that have tended to exhibit the self-control necessary to avoid overborrowing.
Dollar are perceived to impose longterm costs in the form of protectionist barriers and a diminished capital stock in tradable goods sectors. Key to evaluating arguments regarding either long-term misalignments or short-term volatility is a means of evaluating whether private financial markets, with their occasional speculative bubbles and other possible defects, are more or less likely to produce unneeded or undesirable exchange rate movements or misalignments than is the political process, with all its defects, under a pegged-rate system.
The problem with the time series studies is that other factors have changed since 1973, at the same time as exchange rate variability. ) If a quantum change in the level of uncertainty would have to be sustained for a number of years before it could be reliably perceived, let alone before it could lead to a reallocation of resources between traded goods and nontraded goods, twenty years of time series data are perhaps not the most promising place to look. Together with Shang-jin Wei, I have applied to this problem a crosssection data set of bilateral trade flows between 1,953 pairs of countries.