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Internal Monetary Control
Minimal reserve requirements on commercial banks and some limit on their discounting privileges valuation would then be sufficient for internal monetary control. Suppose an incipient surplus developed in the balance of payments; this would signal the authorities that there was an excess demand for domestic money over that being currently supplied. This excess demand would automatically be accommodated when the authorities purchased the convertible foreign currency and provided domestic base money in exchange in order to maintain the pegged exchange rate (prevent the domestic currency from appreciating). Forex institute provided the economy in question had the requisite reserves of foreign exchange, domestic money could be removed from the economy in a symmetrical fashion when a deficit in the balance of payments signaled that there were excess cash balances in domestic circulation. These would then be redeemed by the domestic authorities by selling foreign currency rather than relying on some more complex open-market operation in domestic bond when an open bond market may not yet exist.
Yugoslavia has had chronic inflationary problems during its struggle to liberalize. A policy of pegging the diner to the more stable Deutsche mark (DM), and allowing the domestic supply of diners to be endogenously determined, might commend itself at the present time on these narrow technical grounds of economic efficacy. 23
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