Currency competition and foreign exchange markets

the dollar, the yenand the euro

Currency Competition and Foreign Exchange Markets by Philipp Hartmann of the European Central Bank is a major theoretical and empirical study of international currencies, which focuses on the role which the Euro will play in the international monetary and financial system along with the US ...

Money and liberation

the micropolitica of alternative currency movements

Is conventional money simply a discourse? Is it merely a socially constructed unit of exchange? If money is not an actual thing, are people then free to make collective agreements to use other forms of currency that might work more effectively for them? Proponents of ...

Between the Dollar-Sterling Gold Points

exchange rates, parity and market behavior

Officer begins this book with a historical perspective of the monetary standards of the United States and Britain. He then develops data on exchange rates, mint parity and gold points, with which he investigates three important features of Anglo-American monetary history. First, the integration of ...

Money and payments in theory and practice

International in scope and written by a leading young Post-Keynesian economist, this book focuses on the working of money and payments in a multi-bank settlement system within which banks and non-bank financial institutions have been expanding their operations outside their countries of incorporation. Departing from ...

Monetary economics in developing countries

This book highlights the basic principles of monetary economics and their application to developing countries. Fully illustrated and written in an accessible style, it will be an attractive to students wanting to understand the economic aspects of development and those researching in the area. The ...

Regional monetary policy

With the final phase of the European Monetary Union underway, concern has been raised over the regional implications of the European Central Bank (ECB) Monetary Policy. Departing from the standard approach utilized by the ECB, this book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to explore the ...

Monetary and fiscal policies in the Euro Area

This book studies the interactions between monetary and fiscal policies in the euro area. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on competition between the European central bank, the American central ...

Monetary theory and Bretton Woods

the construction of an international monetary order

Over the twentieth century monetary theory played a crucial role in the evolution of the international monetary system. The severe shocks and monetary gyrations of the interwar years interacted with theoretical developments that superseded the rigid rules of commodity standards and led to the full-fledged ...

Monetary integration and dollarization

No Panacea

This book deals with the economic consequences of monetary integration, which has long been dominated by the Optimal Currency Area (OCA) paradigm. In this model, money is perceived as having developed from a private sector cost minimization process to facilitate transactions. Not surprisingly, the book ...

Money, bank credit, and economic cycles

Can the market fully manage the money and banking sector? Jesús Huerta de Soto, professor of economics at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, has made history with this mammoth and exciting treatise that it has and can again, without inflation, without business cycles, and ...

La Banca Centrale Europea

Nata nel 1998, dopo un lungo lavoro di preparazione e sancita formalmente nel Trattato di Maastricht, la Banca centrale europea è un organo indipendente e sovranazionale che ha lo straordinario potere di creare moneta e stabilire il tasso al quale questa viene data e presa ...

A handbook of alternative monetary economics

This major new Handbook consists of over 30 major contributions that explore the full range of exciting and interesting work on money and finance, currently taking place within heterodox economics. There are many themes and facets of alternative monetary and financial economics but two major ...

El idioma de los precios

los pequeños misterios del dinero

Pocas cosas en nuestra vida cotidiana resultan más usuales que el dinero. Tanto es así que la palabra dinero nos sirve para referirnos a muy diversas realidades, desde las monedas y billetes que habitualmente llevamos con nosotros, hasta la riqueza de que disponemos, pasando por ...

The money men

capitalism, democracy and the Hundred Years' War over the american dollar

From the first days of the United States, a battle raged over money. On one side were the democrats, who wanted cheap money and feared the concentration of financial interests in the hands of a few. On the other were the capitalists who sought the ...

Moneymakers

the secret world of banknote printing

This book is about the most precious piece of paper we know, about bank-notes. Modern life would be unthinkable without them. Yet, the general public is kept very much in the dark about how they are made or who makes them. It is rarely known ...

Bubble man

Alan Greenspan and the missing 7 trillion dollars

In this eye-opening account, Peter Hartcher re-examines the achievements of Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve who presided over the 1990s stock-market bubble - perhaps the biggest speculative frenzy in history - and walked away when it came crashing down, with his reputation apparently unscathed ...

Towards North American monetary union?

a political history of Canada's exchange rate regime

Many believe that Canada's deepening economic integration with the United States and the worldwide trend towards currency blocs will eventually lead to a North American monetary union. In the first detailed analysis of Canadian exchange rate politics, Eric Helleiner challenges this view. Helleiner finds ...

Tratado de Derecho mercantil

T.24: El dinero y la representación de las posiciones acreedoras y deudoras en el tráfico mercantil

Este Tomo del Tratado presenta una unidad temática por una parte constituida a partir del dinero como "mercancía" de singular relevancia en el tráfico mercantil, entendido como tráfico en el mercado y, por otra acogedora de las formas genuinamente mercantiles en que se manifiestan en ...

Committee decisions on monetary policy

evidence from historical records of the Federal Open Market Committee

The monetary and financial system