Dirty Float
A dirty float is a floating exchange-rate regime in which authorities occasionally intervene to influence the currency's value.
Floating-rate and managed-float regimes used to interpret currency policy and exchange-rate flexibility.
Floating and Managed Exchange Regimes explains exchange-rate measures, real and nominal currency values, currency regimes, pegs, floats, convertibility, devaluation, monetary standards, and capital controls used in finance.
Use these pages when currency movements, exchange-rate measurement, cross-border cash flows, country risk, or balance-of-payments pressure affects a finance decision. It sits inside Currency Regimes, Pegs, and Floats, so readers can move up when the broader economics context matters.
This landing page points readers toward Dirty Float, Exchange Rate Regime, Floating Exchange Rate, and Managed Floating Exchange Rate. Choose the narrower page when the term changes the evidence source, calculation, institution, market convention, risk exposure, or decision being made.
| Area | Use it for |
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| Dirty Float | A dirty float is a floating exchange-rate regime in which authorities occasionally intervene to influence the currency’s value. |
| Exchange Rate Regime | An exchange rate regime is the framework a country uses to manage its currency against other currencies. |
| Floating Exchange Rate | A floating exchange rate is a system where the value of a country’s currency is allowed to fluctuate according to the foreign exchange market. |
| Managed Floating Exchange Rate | A managed floating exchange rate lets market forces set the currency while authorities intervene to reduce volatility or guide policy. |
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A dirty float is a floating exchange-rate regime in which authorities occasionally intervene to influence the currency's value.
An exchange rate regime is the framework a country uses to manage its currency against other currencies.
A floating exchange rate is a system where the value of a country's currency is allowed to fluctuate according to the foreign exchange market.
A managed floating exchange rate lets market forces set the currency while authorities intervene to reduce volatility or guide policy.