01904cas a2200265 a 4500 AALejournalIMF004888 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451866674 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Watt, Stanley. Jordan's International Reserve Position : Justifiably Strong / Stanley Watt, Donal McGettigan, Saade Chami. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2007. 1 online resource (19 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 Jordan has seen a large increase in its international reserve holdings in recent years. While a healthy reserve buffer is needed under a fixed exchange rate regime, determining optimal reserve levels is not straightforward. In this paper, we first use several traditional measures of reserves adequacy to compare Jordan's reserve holdings with other emerging market (EM) countries. Subsequently, we analyze Jordan's reserve holdings using a reserves-optimizing model, based on Jeanne and Ranciere (2006) (J-R), but extended to allow reserve holdings to influence the likelihood of a sudden stop. The overall analysis suggests that Jordan's reserve holdings provide sufficient support to sustain the dinar peg and to deal with the most extreme capital account disruptions. Mode of access: Internet Chami, Saade. McGettigan, Donal. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2007/103 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2007/103/001.2007.issue-103-en.xml IMF e-Library