Interest Groups And Monetary Integration: The Political Economy Of Exchange Regime Choice

by Carsten Hefeker

Overview

The currency question, Disreali is reported to have said, has made even more persons mad than love. A quantitative test of the accuracy of this comparison is, in the present deplorable state of medical statistics, scarcely possible, But Disraeli may well have been right.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813366968
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	10/06/1998
Series:	Political Economy of Global Interdependence Series
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1470L (what's this?)

About the Author

Carsten Hefeker is a faculty member of the Department of Economics at the University of Basel.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction — 2 The Economics and the Politics of Exchange Rate Regimes — 3 Monetary Integration in the XIXth century — 4 The Endogeneity of Fixed Exchange Rates — 5 Industrial Interests in Monetary Union: The Banking Industry — 6 Bureaucratic Interests in Monetary Union: The Bundesbank — 7 Monetary Disintegration in the Former Soviet Union — 8 Conclusion — References — Index — About the book and Author.