Download or read book The Purchasing Power Parity Criterion for Stabilizing Exchange Rates written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1989-06-21 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of purchasing power parity as a basis of fixing exchange rates among industrial countries, as proposed by McKinnon, is discussed and contrasted with alternative interpretations of the PPP doctrine. Major policy implications of such a regime are emphasized. Furthermore, a new technique for estimating PPP exchange rates which makes use of price pressure exerted by exchange deviation is introduced. This method is capable of solving the “base-year” problem more satisfactorily than the traditional Cassel-Keynes methodology. Estimated yen/dollar and mark/dollar PPP exchange rates are close to estimates derived using other methods.