Download or read book Do the Benefits of Fixed Exchange Rates Outweigh Their Costs? written by Shantayanan Devarajan and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fixed exchange rates have been a bad bargain for the CFA member countries. Under reasonable tradeoffs between output and inflation, these countries would have been better off having the flexibility to adjust to external shocks.