EXCHANGE RATE - REGIMES AND POLICIES

Exchange rate of one currency is theprice of the currency expressed in units of othercurrency. It is formed by the interaction of supply anddemand in the foreign exchange market. Given thatthe exchange rate has a direct impact on thecompetitiveness of a country in terms of features of itsexports and imports, in its balance of payments, andindirectly the overall economic and socialdevelopment, in addition to acting in marketprinciples - supply and demand in the formation ofthe equilibrium exchange rate, exchange rate issubject to different, stronger or weaker, more or less,forms of intervention. In the search for the optimalexchange rate policy of the national currency, themonetary authorities are positioned between the twoextremes - the complete abandonment of theexchange rate to the market laws of supply anddemand, or fixing the exchange rate for any of theselected anchor currency.