ICI - Dominant Currencies And The Limits Of Exchange Rate Flexibility
By Gustavo Adler, Deputy Division Chief at IMF’s Research Department, Gita Gopinath, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund, and Carolina Osorio Buitron, Economist in the Research Department of the IMF
Faced with an unprecedented shock of collapsing global demand and commodity prices, capital outflows, major supply chain disruptions and a generalized drop in global trade, many emerging markets and developing economies' (EMDEs) currencies have weakened sharply. Will these currency movements support the recovery of these economies?
Building on a new dataset, research laid out in a new