The Quest for Exchange Rate Stability in the Next Millennium

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-7623-0320-5
Verlag: Jai Press Inc.

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 516 g

This book contains a collection of chapters discussing the issues involved in establishing a stable global exchange rate system. In doing so, the authors review the advantages and disadvantages of the various exchange rate regimes used throughout the world during the last fifty years, analyze the role of exchange rate systems in recent international financial crises and explore the probability of constructing a stable global arrangement in the next century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, H. Peter

Rehman, Scheherazade S.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationale Finanzmärkte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Internationales Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Unternehmensfinanzierung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Finanzierung, Investition, Leasing
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Internationale Finanzmärkte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction (S.S. Rehman). Part I: The Evolution of Exchange Rate Systems. A short history of the International Monetary System to 1976, with emphasis on the collapse of the Bretton Woods System (B.F. Duncombe). Part II: Recent Regional Exchange Rate Arrangements. The European experience with the European Monetary System (N. Thygesen). Exchange rate systems in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (J. Pelzman). Part III: Current Issues and Lessons. Performance of Exchange rate systems in the face of capital mobility (P.J. Quirk). The case for crawling pegs revisited (H. Askari). How can existing exchange rate arrangements be made to work better? (D. Salvatore). Part IV: Currency Arrangements for the Next Millennium. The dollar and the euro (C.F. Bergsten). The coming of the euro (Sir A. Walters). The International Monetary System (A. Fazio). The quest for exchange rate stability: realistic or quixotic? (P.A. Volcker).