Managed Floating in Australia

Title
Managed Floating in Australia
Publication Date
2009
Author(s)
Leu, Shawn
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3620-537X
Email: cleu@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:cleu
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
Place of publication
Australia
DOI
10.1111/j.1759-3441.2010.00039.x
UNE publication id
une:21910
Abstract
This paper evaluates the level of managed floating and the exchange rate policy in Australia during the officially floating period from 1984 to 2004. We construct index measures of exchange market pressure and foreign exchange intervention using a small open economy monetary model. The estimation uses the Johansen cointegration method as the structural macroeconomic model is assumed to represent long-run equilibrium relationships. We find that the RBA mainly implemented leaning-against-the-wind exchange rate policy that aimed at guiding the exchange rate back to the equilibrium value while reducing the variability of the dynamic adjustment path.
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Citation
Economic Papers, 28(4), p. 310-322
ISSN
1759-3441
0812-0439
Start page
310
End page
322

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