To tackle
currency overvaluation concerns, policymakers are considering several measures.
The 3:37-minute video showing the state's economic reform plan said that the whole strategy has six main principles, which include "getting rid of the
currency overvaluation, reforming the tax system, developing the administrative structure and wages, putting a clear strategy of reforming the energy sector and finally enhancing the social security sources." According to the video, until now, the state's plan succeeded in achieving a number of its targets and principles.
Still working in a context of full convertibility with a fixed exchange rate, monetary authorities had to deal with capital flight and
currency overvaluation both driven by an environment of political and economic instability and by the exchange rate policy.
(64) The difficulty in diversifying their economies (mostly based on primary product export) was worsened by the
currency overvaluation, which impeded them to create value to their products and develop.
Moreover, the exchange rate peg was not supported by nominal price and wage flexibility which further reduced Argentina's instruments to deal with
currency overvaluation and decreased the credibility of the exchange rate regime.
(2002), found that both
currency overvaluation and pure contagion effects were the leading indicators of the Asian crisis.
Poor planning, excessive state domination, a weak tax base, wasteful subsidies, inadequate investment,
currency overvaluation, and inefficient banking were all recognized by the Rafsanjani administration in 1989 in its Structural Adjustment Program.
Equivalently, the higher domestic consumption that necessitates a greater reliance on foreign finance could fall substantially on nontraded goods, pushing up their price and leading to
currency overvaluation. The greater the capacity of a country to expand nontraded goods, the less the overvaluation.
Consequently, the widely held view that
currency overvaluation was at the heart of each of the East Asian currency crises lacks credibility (although overvaluation probably did play some role).
One of the prominent explanations for the East Asian financial crises of 1997 relies upon East Asian
currency overvaluation. However, most empirical studies of these crises do not undertake serious examination of whether these currencies were overvalued.
interested in a sustained
currency overvaluation." The dollar subsequently broke through the long-standing technical resistance level of DM 1.4225, causing the dollar to spike higher as dealers scrambled to cover substantial short-dollar positions.
