Empirical examination of the nature of these tradeoffs is
not abundant. Ohanian and Stockman [1] showed that there
can be in fact some room for an independent monetary policy
in the short run under a fixed exchange rate regime. Svensson
[2] found similar evidence of short-term monetary
independence within the EMS. Lim and Goh [3] tested for
monetary independence in Malaysia by estimating the capital
account offset and sterilization coefficients. Their results are
consistent with [1] in that the Malaysian central bank
possesses some short-run control over monetary policy even
during the fixed exchange rate regime. This is in sharp
contrast to the impossible trinity’s argument, which states
that a country will lose all its monetary independence under
fixed exchange rates and free capital mobility.