1. In the early 90s Argentina adopted a currency board, fixing the peso to the USD. What was the main motivation for this?
to enhance export competitiveness |
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to join the United States as a territory |
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to tame inflation |
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to create an overvalued real exchange rate |
2. While inflation fell and stabilized, Argentina ran growing current account deficits through the 90s. What was the primary cause of this?
overvalued real exchange rate |
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financial contagion from East Asian Crises |
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growing government budget surplus |
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primary export commodity price spike |
3. Together with large current account deficits, the Argentine government began running increasingly large budget deficits. How might this be structurally related to the choice of a fixed exchange rate regime?
deficits were needed to finance capital outflow at the established rate |
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with no monetary policy, fiscal policy became the only macroeconomic policy tool to fight recessions |
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fiscal profligacy had nothing to do with the exchange rate, Argentina's political leadership was as irresponsible as its monetary leadership had been |
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the debt allowed Argentina's government to import arms for an attempt at another war with Brittain |
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