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Title Strained relations : US foreign-exchange operations and monetary policy in the twentieth century / Michael D. Bordo, Owen F. Humpage, and Anna J. Schwartz.
Author Bordo, Michael D., author.
Publisher Chicago, Illinois : University of Chicago Press, [2015]
Copyright ©2015


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Description x, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9780226051482 hardback : alkaline paper
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-430) and index.
Contents On the evolution of U.S. foreign-exchange-market intervention : thesis, theory, and institutions -- Exchange market policy in the United States : antecedents and precedents -- Introducing the exchange stabilization fund, 1934-1961 -- U.S. intervention during the Bretton Woods era, 1962-1973 -- U.S. intervention and the early dollar float, 1973-1981 -- U.S. foreign-exchange-market intervention during the Volcker-Greenspan era, 1981-1997 -- Lessons from the evolution of U.S. monetary and intervention policies -- Epilogue : foreign-exchange-market operations in the twenty-first century.
Series National Bureau of Economic Research monograph.
Library Class Economics V203
Subject Foreign exchange -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Foreign exchange market -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Economic policy -- 20th century.
Other Author Humpage, Owen F., author.
Schwartz, Anna J. (Anna Jacobson), 1915-2012, author.

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