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An analysis of the strength of the dollar, the role of the dollar and other alternatives as international money, the U.S. as an international capital market, and the past and future relationships between financial policy and foreign relations.

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A comprehensive introductory resource with entries covering the development of money and the functions and dysfunctions of the monetary and financial system.

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Offers an alternative view of the workings of foreign exchange markets. This title explains why large exchange-rate changes and volatility clustering occur. It analyzes the effects of official interventions in the foreign exchange market. It is suitable for analysts in foreign exchange markets and students of international finance and economics.

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This volume integrates financial theory, particularly financial contracting theory, into macroeconomics. Dr. Krainer takes an unconventional approach to the subject of financial institutions and markets: by applying financial theory to macroeconomic topics, he portrays a different view of how the financial system interacts with the economy.

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There is no such thing as money: it is only an agreement of society to use something as a medium of exchange. The author argues that this agreement is being placed under huge strain by a range of social and political issues, and suggests solutions.

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Is globalization leading us toward a world of fewer and fewer currencies and, consequently, simplified monetary management This book argues that this view is wrong. It demonstrates that the global population of currencies is set to expand greatly, not contract, making monetary governance more difficult, not less.

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Traces the historical evolution of humankind's relationship with money, from ancient times to the present-day revolutionary transformation in the meaning and use of money as represented by the electronic cash card, and discusses the implications of such changes.

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This analysis of Israel's successful stabilization program challenges current thinking on macroeconomic policy.

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Explaining the puzzling behavior of exchange rates using models from microstructure finance and data from electronic trading.

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Written for international finance executives, economists and policymakers, this book describes in detail the money markets of the eight major developing countries of East Asia - Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Taiwan.

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A comparative study of the international money supply process (MSP), which aims to involve the basic types of economic and institutional economic systems at all levels of economic development. This comparative approach allows an analysis of the differences that occur in MSP across the world.

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The Washington financier who first proposed creation of a trust fund to retire the national debt has written a book outlining a new plan that would prevent Congress from raiding the fund to supplement the cost of regular government programs.

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This book examines the characteristics of monetary institutions and the ways in which a clear understanding of money, and a sense of what we can know about money, can improve our comprehension on monetary policy. It establishes a link between abstract and theoretical aspects of monetary theory and the problems with money and banks we face today.

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Based on extensive primary source analysis and in-depth interviews with key figures in the field of public debt administration and policy development, this volume presents a comprehensive history of the U.S. public debt from 1775--when the first debt was incurred to finance the Revolutionary War--to the present.

(Paperback, Revised edition)

Questions about the nature of money have gained a new urgency in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Even as many people have less of it, there are more forms and systems of money, from local currencies and social lending to mobile money and Bitcoin. Yet our understanding of what money is--and what it might be--hasn't kept pace. In The So

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Describes and analyses the relationship between the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 to the present. Jacques J. Polak focuses primarily on this period from the 1970s when both the Fund and the Bank strove to meet developing countries' pressing needs for macroeconomic stabilization and structural adjustment.

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The European economic and monetary union has changed the structure of international monetary relations fundamentally. In this book two experts--one European, the other American--offer transatlantic perspectives on the ramifications of the monetary union and the launch of the euro.

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The recent evolution of an independent cross market, combined with the technological advancements in computerized trading marked the beginning of a new era in the Foreign Exchange Market.

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Covering topics such as the behavior of exchange rates, the choice of exchange-rate regime, current-account adjustment in classical and Keynesian models, the effects of capital mobility, international debt and international policy coordination, this book underscores the importance of these subjects and identifies lessons for policymakers.

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European monetary unification has produced a $15 trillion windfall to its member nations that is rarely accounted for in analyses of economic integration. This work argues that the reduction in cross-border risks is responsible for an explosion in the value of fixed income assets and share prices.

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The definitive Economist guide to the world of economics

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