TY  - JOUR
AU  - Roubini,Nouriel
TI  - Offset and Sterilization Under Fixed Exchange Rates With An Optimizing Central Bank
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 2777
PY  - 1988
Y2  - November 1988
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2777
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2777.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Nouriel Roubini
Department of Economics, KMC 7-83
Stern School of Business, New York University
44 West 4th Street
New York, NY  10012
Tel: 212/998-0886
Fax: 212/995-4218
E-Mail: nroubini@stern.nyu.edu
AB  - The traditional approach to the estimation of the offset and sterilization equations can be criticized for the ad-hoc specification of the reaction function of the monetary authorities and the endogeneity of the domestic credit and foreign reserve variables in the estimated equations. The paper proposes an alternative analytical model where the sterilization and offset equations are derived from an explicit maximization problem solved by the monetary authority. In such a model, the optimal intervention and sterilization policies of the monetary authority are shown to be dependent on the different disturbances hitting the economy and the preferences of the monetary authority. In particular, under a wide range of domestic and foreign disturbances the optimal response of the central bank will lead to negatively correlated comovements of domestic credit and foreign reserves if the cer1tral bank cares more about the interest rate smoothing objective relative to the foreign exchange reserve stabilization goal. Conversely, positive correlations between domestic credit and foreign reserves will be observed if the foreign reserve objective is dominant.
ER  -