The effects of exchange rate regimes on inflation and growth in developing countries

This thesis revisits the effect of exchange rate regimes on inflation and growth in developing countries under the most recent financial crises. The data used in this paper covers 102 developing countries over the period 1970-2009. This paper finds that developing countries under the fixed exchange rate regime have lower inflation rate compare to those under the flexible exchange rate regime. This negative relationship between fixed regimes and inflation becomes higher in non-emerging markets. Furthermore, empirical findings also indicate that fixed regime is associated with higher economic growth relative to the flexible regime in developing countries. However, this positive relationship between fixed regime and economic growth only remains significant in emerging markets since these countries are more integrated in global financial markets.