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Focusing on the recent experience of the EMS, the paper examines the behavi
or of domestic daily returns on bond and stock markets with the objective o
f identifying whether there exist significant differences in the patterns o
f volatilities and international correlations between ERM and non-ERM count
ries and across alternative episodes of ERM exchange rate variability. The
paper provides substantial evidence that a credible peg is associated with
a decline in bond market volatility. The analysis also shows that an increa
se in exchange rate volatility is accompanied by a decline in international
correlations between bond and, to a lesser extent, stock markets. (C) 1999
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