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Helmut Schneider 1. The Formulation of the Research Programme 1. In the late sixties the acceleration of US inflation revived the discussion of the fifties about the superiority of flexible exchange rates: The US balance of payments deteriorated since 1965, the dollar shortage after World War II changed to a dollar surplus. The import of US inflation by their main trading partners intensified political pressures so that at the beginning of the seventies most leading countries decided, contrary to the rules of the Bretton Woods agreement, to stop their intervention in the market for foreign exchange and to let the exchange rates be determined by market forces. It is worthwhile recalling that at that time one had only very limited experience with the regime of flexible exchange rates: The most important case, the floating of Canadian against the US dollar, could not be generalized to a world where nearly all important countries adhered to the regime of flexible exchange rates. ! - But one really had rich experience with destabilizing capital flows (or hot money ) that forced monetary authorities to adjust exchange rates in a system of managed flexibility to the expecta- tions of speculators .

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Author:   Franz Gehrels ,  K. Baumgarten ,  Franz Gehrels ,  Horst Herberg
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Weight:   0.625kg
ISBN:  

9783540525912

ISBN 10:   3540525912
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   10 September 1990
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

I. Introduction.- II. Contributions.- 1. Sectoral Effects of Higher Costs of Imported Inputs.- 2. The Dutch Disease or Problems of a Sectoral Boom.- 3. Sectoral Transmission and Aggregate Effects of Imported Inflation: An Econometric Input-Output Model for the Federal Republic of Germany.- 4. Structural Change, Adjustment Strategies and Employment in an Open Economy: The Case of the Manufacturing Industries in the Federal Republic of Germany.- 5. Entrepreneurial Adjustment in Structural Change - Results from a Survey of Selected Lower Saxonian Industries, 1980-1985.- 6. Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade - Unsuitable Instruments of an Employment Policy.- 7. On the Spatial Structure of the World Economy Since World War II.- 8. The Extended Moving-Equilibrium Method: A Presentation.- 9. Local Stability and Dynamic Aspects in a Two-Country Model with Fixed and Flexible Exchange Rates.- 10. Alternative Specifications of Asset Markets in Portfolio Balance Models.- 11. On Fiscal PONZI Games in a World with Overlapping Generations.- III. Appendix.- 1. The Research Programme Inflation and Employment in Open Economies .- 2. Projects.- 3. Publications.

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