Econ 340. Who Uses Fixed and Float. Outline: Fixed versus Floating Exchange Rates. Lecture 16 Fixed versus Floating Exchange Rates
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1 Econ 340 Lecture 16 Fixed versus Floating 2 Who Uses Fixed and Float Exchange Arrangements of Sample Countries, as of 2016 Lessons from the list of exchange arrangements (below) Floating rates are used by many countries Rich & poor Large & small All over the world Pegged rates are used today mostly by small countries Many countries are between fixed and floating (Source of table below: IMF, Annual Report on Exchange Arrangements and Exchange Restrictions Report for 2017 not yet available.) Freely Floating Australia Mexico Canada Sweden India United Kingdom Japan United States Pegged Belize (to $) Morocco (to basket) Denmark (to ) Nepal (to (rupee)) Jordan (to $) Saudi Arabia (to $) 52 countries + euro countries 3 4 Exchange Arrangements of Sample Countries, as of 2016 Exchange Arrangements of Sample Countries, as of 2016 Between Floating and Pegged: Stabilized Arrangement Bolivia Lebanon Singapore Vietnam Crawling Peg or Crawl-like Arrangement Nicaragua (to $) Croatia (to ) Other Managed Arrangement Liberia Malaysia China Pakistan 51 countries 18 countries 13 countries 20 countries 5 More Fixed than Pegged: Currency Board Hong Kong (to $) Bulgaria (tp ) No Separate Legal Tender Ecuador ($) Montenegro ( ) 11 countries 14 countries Currency Board Peg to another currency Vary money supply automatically with changes in international reserves (= forced non-sterilization) 6 1
2 Distribution of Currency Arrangements, 2016 Hard Peg Soft Peg Floating Exchange Rate Arrangements, % IMF Members None Cur. Board Pegged Stabilized Crawl More Fixed Managed Free Float More Flexible Soft peg 2013 Floating Other managed 8 More lessons from the IMF report of exchange arrangements Relatively few use a hard peg (exchange rate that never changes, due either to no local currency or currency board) Soft peg and floating are both common. Soft peg is peg that is open to change, including a standard pegged exchange rate and variation like crawling peg After currency crisis of , some have moved from floating to a soft peg Recently a few more have switched back to floating 9 10 Some favor freely floating rates Advocates of floating rates Let exchange rate adjust to fix imbalances Let the market work Milton Friedman (Nobel Prize 1976): A country that enters into a hard-fixed rate bears an economic cost. The cost is discarding a means a flexible exchange rate of adjusting to external forces that impinge on it differently than on the other country or countries whose currency it shares. Others favor perfectly fixed rates Define currency rigidly in terms of something you can t control Gold Foreign currency ( Currency Board ) AND give up control of the money supply Let flows of money fix imbalances i.e., do not sterilize! 2008 Hard peg Who Uses Fixed and Float
3 Advocates of floating rates Advocates of fixed rates Jeffrey Sachs: Robert Mundell (Nobel Prize 1999): Once reserves are gone, investors panic. The worst mistake is for countries to wait too long to float their currencies. 13 A world currency of some sort has existed for most of the past 2,500 years. Two thousand years ago, in the age of Caesar Augustus, it was the Roman aureus... A hundred years ago it was the gold sovereign. Less than thirty years ago it was the 1944 gold dollar. The world has been without a universal currency for only a tiny fraction of its history. Milton Friedman: Robert Mundell: If [over the last 30 years] the Canadian dollar had been rigidly tied to the US dollar, those differences would have required Canada to deflate relative to the United States, with unfortunate consequences for Canada that would have strained, to put it mildly, the trade relations between the two countries, and have put strong pressure on Canada to devalue or float. Exchange rate uncertainty imposes a cost of trade much like a tariff... If Canada and the United States shared a stable common currency or an irrevocably fixed exchange rate, Canada s real income would soar, closing a large part of the gap between the two countries GDP per capita Bradford DeLong, an economic historian at the University of California at Berkeley, explains the debate to his students this way: To Mr. Friedman, an exchange rate is a price; therefore, it is an infringement on human freedom to peg it. To Mr. Mundell, an exchange rate is a promise; to change it is to default on a commitment. (WSJ) Allan Meltzer (Carnegie-Mellon): The best you can say of what economic research has produced is: You can make a case for freely floating exchange rates if you re willing to live with the consequences. You can make a case for fixed exchange rates if you re willing to live with the consequences. You can t make much of a case for anything in between. (WSJ) 18 3
4 Where they agree: An adjustable peg is worse than both fixed and floating rates Friedman: The reasons why a pegged exchange rate is a ticking bomb are well known. Mundell: I have never nor ever would advocate a general system of pegged rates. Pegged rate systems always break down. Adjustable peg is what the IMF (above) called a soft peg Pros and Cons of Floating Pros and Cons of Floating Con: Exchange rates DO MOVE; And when they do, they cause Macro effects (as we saw last time) Depreciation Stimulates aggregate demand, but not necessarily when needed: may just cause inflation Changes values of assets and liabilities Appreciation Reduces aggregate demand, may cause recession or deflaton Con: Exchange rates DO MOVE; when they do, they cause Micro effects: exports and imports subject to Uncertainty Instability Costly for traders Like trade barrier Reduces trade Pros and Cons of Floating Pros and Cons of Floating Example: The US dollar rose 50% during Caused US auto and other industries to Trade Weighted Dollar Index - Real contract Major dislocation in middle US Ended in 1985 when, 20 0 in Plaza Accord, major central banks agreed to intervene Jan-73 Jan-75 Jan-77 Jan-79 Jan-81 Jan-83 Jan-85 Jan-87 Jan-89 Jan-91 Jan-93 Jan-95 Jan-97 Jan-99 Jan-01 Jan-03 Jan Pro: Exchange rate provides efficient and automatic across-the-board adjustment Suppose that, due to inflation, our prices are too high, causing our imports to rise and exports to fall Exchange depreciation fixes this for all sectors With fixed rates, individual prices and wages would have to fall to become competitive: much more painful That s what Greece and other weak countries in the EU have had to do for several years now. Called internal devaluation Floating Permits countries to have independent monetary policies to deal with macroeconomic shocks 24 4
5 Pros and Cons of Floating Experience with exchange rates in the 1930s (not really floating, but they moved a lot) made governments prefer fixed rates After WWII, IMF was created, based on Pegged Most currencies pegged to US $ IMF helped countries manage this When in trouble, countries were permitted by IMF to devalue Pro: If it succeeds, exchange rate is stable, avoiding disruptions Con: If it fails, devaluation causes instability, just like floating rates, only worse The Problem: Pegged Rates are Prone to Crisis Why Crisis? Pegged rate does not respond to market changes Some currencies become undervalued, others overvalued Inevitable unless all countries have exactly the same rate of inflation Crisis eventually erupts for overvalued currencies Why Crisis for Overvalued Currency? Central bank must sell foreign currency Since reserves are finite, they eventually run out Market knows that when they do $/ E 0 E* Fed sells S D Q 29 Why Crisis for Overvalued Currency Intervention will stop Currency will depreciate Knowing this, people don t want to hold the overvalued currency, so $/ E 0 E* S D Q 30 5
6 Why Crisis for Overvalued Currency Before reserves run out, capital outflow increases demand And reserves fall faster Speculative Attack $/ E 0 E* Fed sells more S D 1 D Q 31 Pegged rates offer speculators a one-way bet Once they see that reserves are falling they bet on a devaluation by selling the country s currency If they are right, they win If they are wrong, they break even (since the exchange rate doesn t change) They can t lose, so they bet a lot But their bets drain reserves keven faster, forcing crisis 32 Crisis even without Overvaluation Crisis only requires expectation of devaluation The expectation doesn t have to be justified; it only has to be believed Can happen even to a currency that is not overvalued How? By contagion. If one country has a crisis, for whatever reason Other countries that are near it, or similar to it, may become suspect That s part of what happened in the Asian Crisis that started in 1997 (more on that in a later lecture) Some countries have feared contagion in recent years 33 Result: Pegged Rates are not Fixed In a world of pegged exchange rates, over time Some currencies become undervalued Other currencies become overvalued Why? Many reasons (see Makin) Bretton Woods: US inflation caused dollar to become overvalued Europe in the 1990s: German tight money after reunification, caused others to become overvalued 34 Result: Pegged Rates are not Fixed Overvalued currencies are subject to speculative attacks When they do devalue, they do it Suddenly By large amounts This is just as disruptive as changes in a floating rate, perhaps more so The choice is not between fixed and floating: E 35 Time 36 6
7 The choice is between pegged and floating: E Which is more stable? Time Mixtures of pegged and floating rates Crawling peg Change the pegged rate slowly and predictably in response to a fall or rise in reserves Slow movement of the peg is supposed to stop the loss of reserves before crisis hits Still subject to speculative attack Mixtures of pegged and floating rates Wider band Let the rate move freely in a large band around the official pegged rate Less intervention should be needed Does not help if country has, say, higher inflation than others: crisis still inevitable Truly Fixed Exchange Rate Use another country s currency Called Dollarization, even if not the US dollar Form a monetary union The Eurozone (we ll look more at this next time) Truly Fixed Exchange Rate Currency Board Peg to another currency Replace central bank with board that automatically varies money supply one-for-one with international reserves If reserves fall, so does money supply, forcing adjustment This mimics the Gold Standard, where gold flowed among countries
8 Truly Fixed Exchange Rate Currency Board How it s supposed to work If exchange rate is over-valued (excess demand for foreign currency)» Currency board sells reserves» This reduces the domestic money supply 1-for-1» Falling money causes falling income and prices» Imports fall, exports rise, and excess demand for foreign currency disappears If exchange rate is under-valued: Opposite Truly Fixed Exchange Rate Currency Board Didn t work for Argentina, which had a crisis anyway Must not have followed the rules Hong Kong has had a currency board (pegged to US$) since 1983, and it has worked well Pegged Rate with Capital Controls Why did pegged rates work in the 1950s & 60s? Most countries had capital controls In spite of that, the system of pegged rates didn t work perfectly: there were some crises Capital controls prevent inflow and outflow of capital, and thus limit speculation Today, most countries see capital controls as too costly But not all: China, Malaysia 47 The Impossible Trinity Goal: Monetary Independence Policy: Pure Float Policy: Full Capital Controls Increased Capital Mobility Goals Goal: Full Financial Integration See Frankel (This is the Missing Figure 3) Goal: Exchange Rate Stability Policy: Monetary Union 48 8
9 Since 1945 Since 1945 See reading by Buttonwood (column in The Economist) Bretton-Woods System, Overseen by IMF Currencies were pegged, mostly to US $ Capital mobility was restricted, but gradually liberalized over time August 15, 1971: Nixon cut the link of US $ to gold, signaling the end of pegged rates Countries stopped pegging, then restarted at different rates, but by 1973 they had given up Frequent crises, as currencies became overvalued due to inflation Since 1945 Since 1973, major currencies have floated Exchange rates moved more than expected Crises did not disappear Monetary policy became more free: the Greenspan put : the use of interest-rate cuts to rescue financial markets, in effect underwriting asset prices The Problem of Undervalued Currencies Overvalued currencies lead to crisis In that sense they are self correcting, since countries are forced, eventually, to devalue or float Undervalued currencies Do not lead to crisis, but only to accumulation of reserves May be viewed as harmful to trading partners The Problem of Undervalued Currencies Until recently, the Chinese yuan was considered undervalued US administration put pressure on China to appreciate US Congress threatened to restrict imports Threats continue, even though yuan is no longer undervalued, as we saw last week
10 0.180 China s Exchange Rate, US$/Yuan, China's Reserves, $ trillions The yuan reached its peak in 2013, and began to fall in From 2014, China s reserves have been falling Jan 2000 Oct 2001 Jul 2002 Apr 2003 Jan 2003 Oct 2004 Jul 2005 Apr 2006 Jan 2006 Oct 2007 Jul 2008 Apr 2009 Jan 2009 Oct 2010 Jul 2011 Apr 2012 Jan 2012 Oct 2013 Jul 2014 Apr 2015 Jan 2015 Oct 2016 Jul Econ 340, Deardorff, Lecture 14: Pegging 55 0 Econ 340, Deardorff, Lecture 14: Pegging 56 Krugman s Argument Next Time (From NYT, Mar 15, 2010) China s current account surplus in 2010 will be over $450 billion US should declare China a currency manipulator in next report, Apr 15 (US did not, and hasn t since.) China does not have US over a barrel. We have China over a barrel. We should repeat what we did in 1971: Then Nixon used a 10% surcharge on imports, so as to prod Japan, Germany, and others to appreciate We should use (or threaten) a 25% surcharge on Chinese exports. The Euro What is it? History of European monetary integration Pros and cons of currency unification Effects on US What happened? Would he say the same today? I doubt it
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