Alain Naef

Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom (eBook, PDF)

1945-1992

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This history of sterling shows how the Bank of England defended the pound and managed foreign exchange.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108881227
• Artikelnr.: 70914605

Autorenporträt

Alain Naef is a research economist at the Banque de France working on the international monetary system.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Sterling's postwar role and lessons from the 1947 convertibility crisis
2. The 1949 devaluation: readjusting the postwar parities
3. The reopening of the London foreign exchange market: Sterling's window on the world. 4. The bank on the market
5. The reopening of the London gold market in 1954: sealing the fate of sterling and the international system
6. 1958 convertibility and its consequences. 7. The gold pool
8. Cooperation and the fed swap network
9. The 1964-7 currency crisis
10. The 1967 devaluation and the fall of the gold pool
11. The consequences of the devaluation: ongoing crisis and window dressing at the bank of England
12. Britain, Nixon and the end of Bretton woods
13. Was the IMF crisis 'natural' or 'manmade'
14. Britain's last currency crisis
Conclusion
Data availability
Bibliography.