The Exchange Rate System and the IMF: A Modest Agenda

by Morris Goldstein

Global currency markets have remained unsettled. The dollar hit record lows against both the yen and the mark in 1995. The Mexican crisis led to a free fall of the peso. Renewed tensions in the European Monetary System required devaluations in Spain and Portugal. It is thus fortuitous that the world's major countries, starting with the G-7 summit in Italy in June 1994, have agreed to reexamine the world monetary system and the role of its chief institutional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881322199
• ISBN13: 9780881322194
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Peterson Institute for International Economic
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher