Description: Balance of Payments Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Theory and Economic Policy Author(s): Robert Stern Format: Paperback Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United States Imprint: AldineTransaction ISBN-13: 9780202308937, 978-0202308937 Synopsis An original and systematic synthesis of the major postwar developments in theory and policy of balance-of-payments adjustment, this book focuses on the present-day system of pegged-but-adjustable exchange rates and the problems that policy authorities must face if they are to attain full employment, price stability, balance-of-payments equilibrium, and a satisfactory rate of economic growth. The dominate theme of this book is that any system of exchange rates carries with it assumptions about the way it works and how effective the automatic and policy-motivated forces operate to bring about equilibrium in a country's balance of payments. By analyzing balance-of-payments adjustment and policies under alternative exchange-rate systems, and with different assumptions concerning the level of employment and prices, it is possible to embrace a wide variety of contemporary and historical circumstances experienced by individual countries and the world as a whole. In this way the author assesses the economic consequences of the different exchange-rate systems and of the policies that countries may follow to attain their national objectives. In particular it appears to Professor Stern that the international monetary turmoil of the past ten years can be traced to the exchange-rate inflexibilities of the adjustable-peg system and to the creation of excessive reserves under the dollar standard. He demonstrates that the international monetary system must be redesigned to permit greater exchange-rate inflexibility and control over the creation of new international reserve assets.
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Book Title: Balance of Payments
Number of Pages: 454 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Balance of Payments: Theory and Economic Policy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis INC International Concepts
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: Economics
Item Height: 229 mm
Item Weight: 612 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Robert Stern
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Paperback
