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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788231103321

Autore

Hori Masahiro

Titolo

Efficiency Costs of Myanmar’s Multiple Exchange Rate Regime / / Masahiro Hori, Yu Ching Wong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

1-4623-6184-6

1-4527-3596-4

9786612841507

1-282-84150-5

1-4518-7057-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (32 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/199

Altri autori (Persone)

WongYu Ching

Disciplina

332.45

Soggetti

Foreign exchange rates - Burma - Econometric models

Economic policy - Econometric models

Foreign exchange rates - Econometric models

Exports and Imports

Foreign Exchange

Macroeconomics

Public Enterprises

Public-Private Enterprises

Trade: General

Currency

Foreign exchange

Civil service & public sector

International economics

Exchange rates

Public sector

Exports

Market exchange rates

Exchange rate arrangements

Finance, Public

Burma Economic policy Econometric models

Myanmar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Multiple Exchange Rate Regime in Myanmar; Box 1. Myanmar's Multiple Exchange Rate System; III. A Model for Myanmar's Foreign Exchange Markets; A. Preliminary Considerations; B. Model Description; IV. Quantitative Analyses; V. Sensitivity Analysis; VI. Summary of Findings; References; Figures; 1. Segmented Foreign Exchange Markets and Conceptual Foreign Exchange Rates; 2. Myanmar's Parallel Market Exchange Rate and its Premium over the Official Exchange Rate from 1960; 3. Efficiency Effects in the Public Sector Trade

4. Efficiency Effects in the Private Sector TradeTables; 1. Net Efficiency Losses Relative to the Value of Trade Flows; 2. Estimated Price Elasticities of Trade Flows in the Earlier Studies; 3. Net Efficiency Loss Estimates under the Baseline Parameters (2004/05-2006/07); 4. Net Efficiency Loss Estimates under the Baseline Parameters (2004/05-2006/07) (Relative to Estimated Nominal GDP); 5. Sensitivity of Estimated Net Efficiency Losses to Assumed Parameters (2006/07)

Sommario/riassunto

Myanmar's multiple exchange rate system creates various economic distortions. This paper describes the exchange rate practices in Myanmar, develops a model of foreign exchange markets, and presents the efficiency costs imposed by quasi-fiscal operation under the current exchange rate regime. The results of our model-based analyses indicate that the equilibrium exchange rate under the unified market could be at around K 400-500 per U.S. dollar, and using the equilibrium exchange rate (instead of the official exchange rate) as the accounting rate increases trade openness to more than 20 percent from less than 1 percent measured by official statistics. The total efficiency loss caused by the current multiple exchange rate regime is estimated at about 14-17 percent of GDP in 2006/07.