Exchange Rates and Policy Coordination
Author: Peter B. Kenen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780719030390
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Author: Peter B. Kenen
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780719030390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William H. Branson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 0226071383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the five largest industrial democracies concluded the Plaza Agreement in 1985, the theory and practice of international economic policy coordination has become the subject of spirited academic and public-policy debate. While some view policy coordination as crucial for the construction of an improved international monetary system, others fear that it risks delaying or weakening the implementation of macroeconomic and structural policies. In these papers and comments, prominent international economists consider past and present interpretations of the meaning of international policy coordination; conditions necessary for coordination to be beneficial both to the direct participants and the global economy; influential factors for the quantitative impact of coordination; obstacles to coordination; the most—and least—effective methods of coordination; and future directions of the coordination process, including processes associated with greater fixity of exchange rates. These studies will be readily accessible to policymakers, while offering sophisticated analyses to interested scholars of the global economy.
Author: C. Randall Henning
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 0881325775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul R. Masson
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 981435015X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume provides an integrated compilation of selected major articles published by the author in several fields of international finance. These include contributions to the understanding of currency crises and financial contagion, the evolution of exchange rate regimes, the interaction between national fiscal policies and regional monetary unions, and the effect of uncertainty on the gains from international economic policy coordination. The author spent most of his career doing research at established institutions (the Bank of Canada, OECD, and IMF), and these articles emerged from the need to understand the major economic policy issues of the day. In the book's introduction, the author discusses the motivation for these contributions and the unifying themes that emerged, while a concluding chapter provides his personal reflections and suggestions about promising avenues for further research.
Author: Michael C. Webb
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1501745344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael C. Webb explores a central question about postwar economic history: how has the growth of international markets affected the coordination of economic policy among nations? His analysis overturns the popular assumption that policy coordination has eroded as American hegemony has receded. Instead, he argues that the growing mobility of capital forced governments to abandon the strategies they had used in the 1950s and 60s to insulate monetary and fiscal policies from international influences, and to move toward more direct coordination of central economic strategies. Webb shows that since 1945 there has been a crucial shift in the pattern of international collaboration. He focuses on three types of adjustment policy: trade and capital controls, balance-of-payment lending and intervention in foreign-exchange markets, and monetary and fiscal policies. Noting that the first two types are no longer effective, he demonstrates that governments now rely more on monetary and fiscal policy coordination to regulate the global economy. As the expansion of international finance created greater turbulence in the global economy in the 1980s, the liberal system of international trade threatened to collapse. Webb examines in particular how the United States, Japan, and Germany took unprecedented steps to coordinate monetary and fiscal policies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, although domestic political obstacles—not any decline in U.S. power—limited the impact of this policy coordination. He concludes by assessing the effectiveness of these attempts to reconcile the goal of a stronger liberal system of economic exchange with the desire to maintain national autonomy.
Author: Peter Bain Kenen (Wirtschaftswissenschaftler)
Publisher:
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 130
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Silke Fabian
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 3642500293
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the breakdown of the Bretton Woods System and the begin of floating between the major currencies, central banks have been formally freed from their obligations to defend the fixed parities of bilateral exchange rates. Nev ertheless, since then there have been countless occasions on which monetary authorities have officially intervened in the foreign exchange market. More over, numerous studies indicate that exchange rates have been much more variable than originally anticipated - in real and in nominal, as well as in short run and longer run measures (see for example Hesse and Braasch [1989] and Marston [1988]). Through the experience of high real sector costs, the topic of optimal exchange rate management soon reentered policy discussions. The term exchange rate management encompasses both the choice of ex change rate regime as well as active intervention policies within the given 1 system. Much of the recent policy discussion has focussed on the first issue, in particular proposals of how to reform the present international monetary order. And new systems such as the European Monetary System (EMS) have emerged for subgroups of countries. However, the question of finding the optimal system has not yet been resolved.
Author: W. Max Corden
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0226115917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis account of exchange rates in the international monetary system considers the issues in international macroeconomics. Using theoretical models of international economics it explains the effects of various policies and issues in macroeconomics.
Author: Group of Thirty
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 56
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