01784cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF001012 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451853322 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Olters, Jan-Peter. Foreign Exchange Queues, Informal Traders, and a Zero Premium in the Black Market : A Cape Verdean Puzzle / Jan-Peter Olters. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1999. 1 online resource (31 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students During 1996-98, several indicators hinted at the apparent unsustainability of Cape Verde's exchange rate peg. The country, faced with a considerable backlog of approved but unmet applications for foreign currencies, tolerated a parallel market. Street traders, however, demanded only negligible premiums (if any at all) for foreign exchange. By integrating the emigrants' transfer decisions into a basic Mundell-Fleming-type model, the author conjectures that this puzzle can be explained with the increasing use of transfer channels outside the banking system, leading to unrecorded inflows of foreign exchange. Analysis of the relevant balance of payments data appears to support this result. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1999/110 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1999/110/001.1999.issue-110-en.xml IMF e-Library