Exchange rates and economic policy in the 20th century
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Exchange rates and economic policy in the 20th century
(Modern economic and social history series)
Ashgate, c2004
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
"Original versions of the chapters in this volume were presented in Session E5 ... at the Twelfth International Economic History Congress held in Madrid in August 1998"--Pref
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The themes of this study are the exchange rate regimes chosen by policy makers in the twentieth century, the means used to maintain these regimes, and the impact of these decisions on individual national economies and the world economy in general. The book draws heavily on new research showing the lessons and the legacy left for policy makers by the gold standard and the attempt at its resurrection in the 1920s. In examining issues such as the gold exchange standard, the gold bullion standard, the experience of floating exchange rates, the Bretton Woods arrangements, the EMS and the ERM, and the Currency Board approach, there is a conscious attempt to draw out the relevance of history for policy makers now.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Introduction, Ross E. Catterall
- Exchange rate regimes and economic performance in the inter-war years, Derek H. Aldcroft
- Exchange rate crises and the US financial markets during the 1930s, Scott Sumner
- The political economy of money supply, exchange rate and inflation targets since Bretton Woods, Michael J. Oliver
- European monetary union: does recent economic history in the UK suggest that exchange rates pose significant trade barriers?, Allan Webster
- The cart before the horse?: Australian exchange rate policy and economic reform in the 1980s, Kieron Toner
- Stabilisation and adjustment in Greece, 1990-99, Costas Karfakis
- Riding the exchange rate roller-coaster: speculative currency markets and the durability of exchange rate regimes, Ross E. Catterall
- The elusive case for flexible exchange rates, George Zis
- Unilateral euroisation in transition countries: the case of southeastern Europe, Angelos Kotios
- Index.
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