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  title info:
    title: Fixed ideas of money
    sub title: small states and exchange rate regimes in twentieth-century Europe
  name:
    name part: Straumann, Tobias.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xix, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Most European countries are rather small, yet we know little about their monetary history. This book analyses for the first time the experience of seven small states (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland) during the last hundred years, starting with the restoration of the gold standard after World War I and ending with Sweden's rejection of the Euro in 2003. The comparative analysis shows that for the most part of the twentieth century the options of policy makers were seriously constrained by a distinct fear of floating exchange rates. Only with the crisis of the European Monetary System (EMS) in 1992-93 did the idea that a flexible exchange rate regime was suited for a small open economy gain currency. The book also analyses the differences among small states and concludes that economic structures or foreign policy orientations were far more important for the timing of regime changes than domestic institutions and policies"--
  abstract: "1. The book treats a new topic: monetary history of seven small states across the 20th century; 2. It shows the crucial importance of economic ideas and monetary theories in policy making; 3. It has a long-term perspective: 100 years of European monetary history; 4. The results are relevant for the understanding of the current/recent financial and economic crisis"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. The Interwar Years: 1. Early divergence; 2. The return to prewar parity; 3. Fear of experiments; 4. The dissolution of the gold bloc; Part II. After Bretton Woods: 5. Fixed vs. floating; 6. Hard and soft pegs; 7. The Swiss exception; 8. Floating in the north; Conclusion.
  note: Tobias Straumann.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e------
  subject:
    topic: Foreign exchange
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    topic: Monetary policy
    geographic: Europe
  subject:
    topic: States, Small
  classification: HG3942 .S78 2010
  classification: 332.4/56094
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      title: Studies in macroeconomic history
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  identifier: 0521112710
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 100318
    record change date: 20151201152833.0
    record identifier: in00002552554