1st Edition
Interest Groups And Monetary Integration The Political Economy Of Exchange Regime Choice
By Carsten Hefeker
Copyright 1996
172 Pages
by
Routledge
171 Pages
by
Routledge
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.
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.
Biography
Carsten Hefeker
