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France and the Bretton Woods International Monetary System: 1960-1968 / Michael D. Bordo, Dominique Simard, Eugene White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bordo, Michael D.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w4642.
- NBER working paper series no. w4642
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- France and the Bretton Woods International Monetary System
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1994.
- Summary:
- We reinterpret the commonly held view in the U.S. that France, by following a policy from 1965 to 1968 of deliberately converting their dollar holdings into gold helped perpetuate the collapse of the Bretton Woods International Monetary System. We argue that French international monetary policy under Charles de Gaulle was consistent with strategies developed in the interwar period and the French Plan of 1943. France used proposals to return to an orthodox gold standard as well as conversions of its dollar reserves into gold as tactical threats to induce the United States to initiate the reform of the international monetary system towards a more symmetrical and cooperative gold-exchange standard regime.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- February 1994.
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