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Arguments for the Ruble Exchange Rate Management
https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2015-12-51-68
Abstract
The paper discusses the target guides and the Bank of Russia’s monetary policy operational instruments. Events of 2014-2015 showed that the inflation targeting regime is not an effective target guide of the Bank of Russia’s monetary policy. The key interest rate fails to reflect the proper price of holding and using of financial resources of households, financial and non-financial organizations. The floating exchange rate regime has not become an automatic mechanism of external shocks absorption, but intensifies the exchange rate volatility instead. The exchange rate management is the only effective regime for the current Bank of Russia’s monetary policy.
Keywords
Bank of Russia,
monetary policy,
key interest rate,
exchange rate,
prudential requirements,
inflation targeting
JEL: E52, Е58
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Andryushin S. Arguments for the Ruble Exchange Rate Management. Voprosy Ekonomiki. 2015;(12):51-68. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2015-12-51-68
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