Strained Relations : US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century - Michael D. Bordo

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Strained Relations

US Foreign-Exchange Operations and Monetary Policy in the Twentieth Century

By: Michael D. Bordo, Owen F. Humpage, Anna J. Schwartz

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Hardcover | 25 February 2015 | Edition Number 1

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496 Pages

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During the twentieth century, foreign-exchange intervention was sometimes used in an attempt to solve the fundamental trilemma of international finance, which holds that countries cannot simultaneously pursue independent monetary policies, stabilize their exchange rates, and benefit from free cross-border financial flows. Drawing on a trove of previously confidential data, Strained Relations reveals the evolution of US policy regarding currency market intervention, and its interaction with monetary policy. The authors consider 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.

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"Strained Relations is simultaneously a detailed history of American foreign-exchange intervention, an evaluation of the policy's effectiveness, and a broader treatise on the relationship between monetary and exchange-rate policy. . . . This is a valuable book for those interested in American monetary and exchange-rate policy in the twentieth century. It will be used by scholars for years to come."-- "Journal of Economic Literature" (10/22/2015 12:00:00 AM)
"Ordinarily, the word 'definitive' is overused, but not in this case. The authors have written an exhaustively detailed history of intervention in the foreign exchange markets by the US Treasury and Federal Reserve System. . . . Unfortunately, central bankers do not document what is systematic about their behavior. Their preferred language of discretion crowds out any record of the systematic character of policy. That is why a book like Strained Relations is so important. Its methodical recording of a key aspect of Fed behavior provides documentary evidence on the nature of monetary policy, . . . [and] it sets a high bar for the quality of such research."-- "Journal of Economic History" (4/25/2016 12:00:00 AM)

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