#  Currency Policies 

 



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"[Coping with commodity price volatility: an idea for exporting countries](http://globaldev.blog/blog/coping-commodity-price-volatility-idea-exporting-countries)," *GlobalDev,* Feb. 8, 2018.  
  
"[Currency-Plus-Commodity Basket: A Proposal for a New Exchange Rate Arrangement for Gulf Oil-Exporting Countries](http://erf.org.eg/publications/currency-plus-commodity-basket-a-proposal-for-a-new-exchange-rate-arrangement-for-gulf-oil-exporting-countries/)," in [Policy Brief No. 26](http://erf.org.eg/publications/currency-plus-commodity-basket-a-proposal-for-a-new-exchange-rate-arrangement-for-gulf-oil-exporting-countries/), June 2017 ([Economic Research Forum](http://erf.org.eg/publication_cat/working-paper-series/), Cairo). Summarized in “[A new exchange rate regime for oil-exporting countries](http://theforum.erf.org.eg/2017/12/12/new-exchange-rate-regime-oil-exporting-countries/),”  *The Forum,* [ERF](http://erf.org.eg/) [Policy Portal](http://theforum.erf.org.eg/affiliates/jeffrey-frankel/), Dec.12, 2017;   
  
“[A Comparison of Monetary Anchor Options for Commodity-Exporters in Latin America and the Caribbean](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/LACA-PEP-09.doc),” workshop on *Myths and Realities of Commodity Dependence: Policy Challenges and Opportunities for Latin America and the Caribbean*, World Bank, Sept.2009. [Slides](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/LAC-Sept2009.ppt). [Box in ](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/LAC-Frankel%20box.doc)*Natural Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean: Beyond Booms and Busts* (World Bank, 2010).  
  
"[UAE & Other Gulf Countries Urged to Switch Currency Peg from the Dollar to a Basket That Includes Oil,](http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1381)" [VoxEU](http://www.voxeu.org/), 9 July, 2008  
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"[Iraq’s Currency Solution? Tie the Dinar to Oil](http://www.international-economy.com/TIE_F03_Frankel.pdf)[," ](http://ksghome.harvard.edu/~.jfrankel.academic.ksg/What_to_do_with_Iraqs_Currency.pdf) [The International Economy](http://www.international-economy.com/PastIssueTIE.htm), 17, no.4, [Fall 2003](http://www.international-economy.com/Fall2003archive.htm), pp. 54-57..  
  
[A Proposal to Tie Iraq’s Currency to Oil published as "A Crude Peg for the Iraqi Dinar," *Financial Times*, June 13, 2003.](http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/news/opeds/2003/frankel_dinar_ft_061303.htm)