Real Adjustment Processes under Floating Exchange Rates (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990)

Helmut Schneider 1. The Formulation of the Research Programme 1. In the late sixties the acceleration of US inflation revived the discussion of the fifties about the superiority of flexible exchange rates: The US balance of payments deteriorated since 1965, the dollar shortage after World War II changed to a dollar surplus. The import of US inflation by their main trading partners intensified political pressures so that at the beginning of the seventies most leading countries decided, contrary to the rules of the Bretton Woods agreement, to stop their intervention in the market for foreign exchange and to let the exchange rates be determined by market forces. It is worthwhile recalling that at that time one had only very limited experience with the regime of flexible exchange rates: The most important case, the floating of Canadian against the US dollar, could not be generalized to a world where nearly all important countries adhered to the regime of flexible exchange rates. ! - But one really had rich experience with destabilizing capital flows (or "hot money") that forced monetary authorities to adjust exchange rates in a system of managed flexibility to the expecta tions of "speculators".

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Studies in International Economics and Institutions
Release date:	December 2011
First published:	1990
Contributors:	K Baumgarten
Editors:	Franz Gehrels • Horst Herberg
Contributors:	L. Bellmann • G. Dieckheuer
Editors:	Helmut Schneider • Hans-Jurgen Vosgerau
Contributors:	B. Eckwert • K. Enders • B. Gehrke
Dimensions:	244 x 170 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	302
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-84200-9
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > General Promotions
LSN:	3-642-84200-3
Barcode:	9783642842009

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