Eichengreen, Barry.
Imported or Home Grown? The 1992-3 EMS Crisis /
Barry Eichengreen, Alain Naef.
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- NBER working paper series no. w29488 .
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29488. .
November 2021.
Using newly assembled data on foreign exchange market intervention, we construct a daily index of exchange market pressure during the 1992-3 crisis in the European Monetary System, allowing us to pinpoint when and where the crisis was most severe. Our analysis focuses on a neglected factor in the crisis: the role of the weak dollar in intra-EMS tensions. We provide new evidence of the contribution of a falling dollar-Deutschmark exchange rate to pressure on EMS currencies.
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