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Currency boards in retrospect and prospect / Holger C. Wolf ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- CESifo book series.
- CESifo book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Currency boards--History.
- Currency boards.
- Currency boards--Europe, Eastern.
- Currency boards--Argentina.
- Monetary policy--Europe, Eastern.
- Monetary policy.
- Monetary policy--Argentina.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Employing economic theory, cross-country empirical comparison and case studies, this work analyses the effect of currency boards on inflation, output growth and macroeconomic performance. The case studies come from Argentina, Estonia Lithuania, Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Currency boards : history, theory, and institutions
- Currency boards in historical perspective
- Why do countries choose currency boards?
- Modern currency boards : structural and institutional aspects
- Macroeconomic performance
- Stylized facts
- Inflation and disinflation under alternative exchange rate regimes
- Output growth and trade performance
- Argentina
- Case studies in modern currency boards : the European experience
- Euro-based currency boards : introduction
- Estonia
- Lithuania
- Bulgaria
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Euro-based currency boards : an assessment
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-251) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-30993-9
- 1-282-09959-0
- 9786612099595
- 0-262-28641-6
- 1-4356-4330-5
- OCLC:
- 228093566
- Publisher Number:
- 9786612099595
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