Exchange Rates and Economic Policy in the 20th Century

Ross E. Catterall, Anglia University, Cambridge, UK, and Derek H. Aldcroft, University of Leicester, UK Ross E. Catterall, Derek H. Aldcroft, Scott Sumner, Michael J. Oliver, Allan Webster, Kieron Toner, Costas Karfakis, George Zis, Angelos Kotios.

Contents: Preface; Introduction, Ross E. Catterall; Exchange rate regimes and economic performance in the inter-war years, Derek H. Aldcroft; Exchange rate crises and the US financial markets during the 1930s, Scott Sumner; The political economy of money supply, exchange rate and inflation targets since Bretton Woods, Michael J. Oliver; European monetary union: does recent economic history in the UK suggest that exchange rates pose significant trade barriers?, Allan Webster; The cart before the horse?: Australian exchange rate policy and economic reform in the 1980s, Kieron Toner; Stabilisation and adjustment in Greece, 1990-99, Costas Karfakis; Riding the exchange rate roller-coaster: speculative currency markets and the durability of exchange rate regimes, Ross E. Catterall; The elusive case for flexible exchange rates, George Zis; Unilateral euroisation in transition countries: the case of southeastern Europe, Angelos Kotios; Index.