Floating exchange rate has led to more volatility, Norwegian paper says

Moving to inflation targeting regime prompted rise in late 1990s, authors find

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Moving to inflation targeting regime prompted rise in late 1990s

Nominal exchange rate changes have been more "volatile" since the Norwegian economy moved to a floating exchange rate regime, a working paper published by Norges Bank finds.

In The role of oil prices and monetary policy in the Norwegian economy since the 1980s, Q Farooq Akram and Haroon Mumtaz use a "time-varying parameter VAR model" to investigate changes in the dynamic of key Norwegian macroeconomic variables over the last thirty years.

Although there does not seem to be any appreciation or

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