Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences

by Atish R. Ghosh, Holger C. Wolf, Anne-Marie Gulde, et al.

An empirical study of exchange rate regimes based on data compiled from 150 member countries of the International Monetary Fund over the past thirty years.

Few topics in international economics are as controversial as the choice of an exchange rate regime. Since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system in the early 1970s, countries have adopted a wide variety of regimes, ranging from pure floats at one extreme to currency boards and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262072408
• ISBN13: 9780262072403
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher