Strained Relations

Considers how foreign-exchange intervention was affected by changing economic and institutional circumstances - most notably the abandonment of the international gold standard - and how political and bureaucratic factors affected this aspect of public policy.

About the author

Michael D. Bordo is professor of economics at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and a research associate of the NBER. Owen F. Humpage is a senior economic advisor in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Anna J. Schwartz (1915-2012) was a research associate of the NBER.

Summary

Considers how foreign-exchange intervention was affected by changing economic and institutional circumstances - most notably the abandonment of the international gold standard - and how political and bureaucratic factors affected this aspect of public policy.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Bordo, Michael D. Bordo, Michael D. Humpage Bordo, Owen F. Humpage, Humpage Owen F., Ann Schwartz, Anna J. Schwartz, Anna Jacobson Schwartz
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.04.2015
• EAN: 9780226051482
• ISBN: 978-0-226-05148-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 237 mm x 30 mm
• Series: NBER-Monographs (CHUP); NBER-Monographs; National Bureau of Economic Research Monograph
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy, 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, United States of America, USA, Monetary Economics