Because many emerging market countries have not developed the political or monetary institutions that allow the successful use of discretionary monetary policy, ________.
A) they have little to gain from pegging their exchange rate to an anchor country like America or Germany
B) they have little to gain from using a nominal anchor, because it would mean a monetary policy that is overly expansionary
C) they have very little to gain from an independent monetary policy, but a lot to lose
D) they would be better off giving their central bankers the independence to use discretion, rather than take their discretion away through any nominal anchor
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