Download or read book Floating Exchange Rates in an Interdependent World written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Floating Exchange Rates in an Interdependent World No Simple Solutions to the Problems written by United States General Accounting of Gao and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floating Exchange Rates in an Interdependent World: No Simple Solutions to the Problems
Download or read book Floating Exchange Rates in an Interdependent World written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a congressional request, GAO examined the role of government policy in determining exchange rates and the role of floating exchange rates in an interdependent world economy. The analysis was focused on: (1) the process of exchange rate determination, particularly the yen-dollar rate and the role of Japanese Government actions; (2) the constraints that international economic interdependence impose on economic policy; and (3) alternatives to the floating exchange rate system. According to some analysts, the floating exchange rate system is not an adequate method to facilitate the growth of world trade and investment. Some governments, especially Japan, are alleged to exert improper influence over exchange rates, while the United States does not exert enough influence. While appreciation of the dollar from 1980 to 1983 lowered the inflation rate, it also reduced the gross national product and caused the loss of over a million jobs. GAO found no support for charges that the Japanese Government pursued a policy to deliberately undervalue the yen relative to the dollar. Any intervention undertaken by that government was aimed at strengthening rather than weakening the yen. However, Japan could do more to facilitate greater international use of the yen. GAO found that exchange rates are affected by the international balance of trade, capital flows among nations, differences between countries' national economic policies and economic conditions, and perceived political risks and expectations. The complications of interdependence and the limits to current understanding of exchange rate behavior have prevented a consensus on the advisability of changing the current system. However, the interdependence of national economies constrain the range of domestic economic policies that the United States can adopt.
Download or read book Floating Exchange Rates in an Interdependent World written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Affairs written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO sponsored a symposium of specialists on exchange rate behavior. The seminar participants addressed the yen-dollar exchange rates and analyzed the implications of floating exchange rates and economic interdependence on the conduct of national macroeconomic policy and the future of the international financial system. GAO found that it is questionable whether some policy to manage exchange rates can mitigate or reverse the adverse economic effects of exchange rate behavior. One analyst noted that there are alternative definitions of exchange rate overvaluation and several plausible sources of overvaluation. The limits to research in exchange rate behavior partially explain the disagreement over exchange rate management policy, and forecasting long-range exchange rates has not been successful. Although the symposium participants agreed that floating exchange rates cannot insulate an open economy from external economic disturbances or contain domestic disturbances within a single economy, they agreed that flexible exchange rates are superior to fixed rates. Panelists also agreed that policies aimed at countering misaligned exchange rates will have limited success if national macroeconomic policies differ markedly. Furthermore, a policy that addresses only the exchange rate, without addressing monetary and fiscal policies, can have only limited success.
Download or read book Symposium on Floating Exchange Rates in an Interdependent World written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Symmposium on floating exchange rates in an interdependent world 18 2 1983 written by Richard Chooper and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speculation And The Dollar written by Laurence Krause and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I began serious consideration of the issues and subject matter that comprise this book as a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In need of a dissertation topic and vaguely curious about international monetary economics, I decided to sit in on Leonard Rapping's undergraduate course on international finance. Needless to say, I was soon hooked. Within several months I was teaching my own course on international money and beginning to write an outline of what would become my doctoral dissertation on foreign exchange speculation. Once completed the dissertation thesis became this basis for this book.
Download or read book Floating Exchange Rates and the State of World Trade and Payments written by David Bigman and published by Beard Books. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes developments in the international monetary system since 1973, with anew added epilogue.
Download or read book Economic Interdependence and Flexible Exchange Rates written by Jagdeep S. Bhandari and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1983-02-01 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished economists review how the 1973 shift from fixed exchange rates to flexible rates has influenced world economic interdependence.
Download or read book Macroeconomic Policies in an Interdependent World written by Mr.Paul R. Masson and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1989-06-15 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copublished with the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C. and the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, and edited by Ralph Bryant, David Currie, Jacob A. Frenkel, Paul Masson, and Richard Portes, this volume considers economic interdependence among well developed countries as well as between them and the developing regions of the world.
Download or read book Flexible Exchange Rates for a Stable World Economy written by Joseph E. Gagnon and published by Peterson Institute. This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volatile exchange rates and how to manage them are a contentious topic whenever economic policymakers gather in international meetings. This book examines the broad parameters of exchange rate policy in light of both high-powered theory and real-world experience. What are the costs and benefits of flexible versus fixed exchange rates? How much of a role should the exchange rate play in monetary policy? Why don't volatile exchange rates destabilize inflation and output? The principal finding of this book is that using monetary policy to fight exchange rate volatility, including through the adoption of a fixed exchange rate regime, leads to greater volatility of employment, output, and inflation. In other words, the "cure" for exchange rate volatility is worse than the disease. This finding is demonstrated in economic models, in historical case studies, and in statistical analysis of the data. The book devotes considerable attention to understanding the reasons why volatile exchange rates do not destabilize inflation and output. The book concludes that many countries would benefit from allowing greater flexibility of their exchange rates in order to target monetary policy at stabilization of their domestic economies. Few, if any, countries would benefit from a move in the opposite direction.
Download or read book Floating Exchange Rates and World Inflation written by J. Ahmad and published by Springer. This book was released on 1984-06-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The International Monetary System written by Peter B. Kenen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the two decades prior to publication of this 1994 book, international monetary relations had been characterised by latent instability, and then by severe tensions. Yet the issue of reforming the international monetary system does not appear on the agenda of the policy makers of the major countries involved. The International Monetary System tries to analyse this apparent contradiction. It brings together contributions from some of the most authoritative academic economists and monetary officials, and examines each of the fundamental functions of the international monetary system. There is broad support for improving present monetary arrangements with the aim of ensuring more stable conditions in monetary and financial markets and of promoting the orderly adjustment of payments disequilibria. For political reasons a fully-fledged reform exercise is unlikely, but very few experts seem to like the status quo. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive account of the institutional and policy changes required to manage an increasingly integrated and interdependent global monetary and financial system.
Download or read book Fixed Exchange Rates Floating Exchange Rates and Currency Boards written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress is generally interested in promoting a stable and prosperous world economy. Stable currency exchange rate regimes are a key component to stable economic growth. This report explains the difference between fixed exchange rates, floating exchange rates, and currency boards/unions, and outlines the advantages and disadvantages of each. Floating exchange rate regimes are market determined; values fluctuate with market conditions. In fixed exchange rate regimes, the central bank is dedicated to using monetary policy to maintain the exchange rate at a predetermined price. In theory, under such an arrangement, a central bank would be unable to use monetary policy to promote any other goal; in practice, there is limited leeway to pursue other goals without disrupting the exchange rate. Currency boards and currency unions, or "hard pegs," are extreme examples of a fixed exchange rate regime where the central bank is truly stripped of all its capabilities other than converting any amount of domestic currency to a foreign currency at a predetermined price. The main economic advantages of floating exchange rates are that they leave the monetary and fiscal authorities free to pursue internal goals -- such as full employment, stable growth, and price stability -- and exchange rate adjustment often works as an automatic stabilizer to promote those goals. The main economic advantage of fixed exchange rates is that they promote international trade and investment, which can be an important source of growth in the long run, particularly for developing countries. The merits of floating compared to fixed exchange rates for any given country depends on how interdependent that country is with its neighbors. If a country's economy is highly reliant on its neighbors for trade and investment and experiences economic shocks similar to its neighbors', there is little benefit to monetary and fiscal independence, and the country is better off with a fixed exchange rate. If a country experiences unique economic shocks and is economically independent of its neighbors, a floating exchange rate can be a valuable way to promote macroeconomic stability. A political advantage of a fixed exchange rate regime, and a currency board particularly, in a country with a profligate past is that it "ties the hands" of the monetary and fiscal authorities. Recent experience with economic crisis in Mexico, East Asia, Russia, Brazil, and Turkey suggests that fixed exchange rates can be prone to currency crises that can spill over into wider economic crises. This is a factor not considered in the earlier exchange rate literature, in part because international capital mobility plays a greater role today than it did in the past. These experiences suggest that unless a country has substantial economic interdependence with a neighbor to which it can fix its exchange rate, floating exchange rates may be a better way to promote macroeconomic stability, provided the country is willing to use its monetary and fiscal policy in a disciplined fashion. The collapse of Argentina's currency board in 2002 suggests that such arrangements do not get around the problems with fixed exchange rates, as their proponents claimed. This report will not be updated.
Download or read book Floating Exchange Rates written by Ronald MacDonald and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 1988 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
