Considers how foreign-exchange intervention was affected by changing economic and institutional circumstances - most notably the abandonment of the international gold standard - and how political and bureaucratic factors affected this aspect of public policy. Num Pages: 496 pages, 72 line drawings, 18 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; KCBM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 726. . 2015. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Strained Relations: US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century (National Bureau of Economic Research Monograph)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Publication Date: 2015
Language: English
ISBN 10: 022605148X
ISBN 13: 9780226051482
Binding: Hardcover
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During the twentieth century, foreign-exchange intervention was sometimes used in an attempt to solve the fundamental trilemma of international finance, which holds that countries cannot simultaneously pursue independent monetary policies, stabilize their exchange rates, and benefit from free cross-border financial flows. Drawing on a trove of previously confidential data, Strained Relations reveals the evolution of US policy regarding currency market intervention, and its interaction with monetary policy. The authors consider how foreign-exchange intervention was affected by changing economic and institutional circumstances―most notably the abandonment of the international gold standard―and how political and bureaucratic factors affected this aspect of public policy.

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Michael D. Bordo is professor of economics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and a research associate of the NBER.

Owen F. Humpage is a senior economic advisor in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

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