Currency Competition and Foreign Exchange Markets
Subtitle: The Dollar, the Yen and the Euro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521632737
Subjects: Monetary economics; Money & Monetary Policy; Euro; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Monetary unions; Business/Economics; Foreign Exchange; Euro-dollar market; Economics - General; Economics - Macroeconomics; Business & Economics / Foreign Exchange; Business & Economics / Macroeconomics; Business & Economics : Economics - General; Business & Economics : Economics - Macroeconomics; Currency question; European Union countries
First sentence: This book studies the phenomenon of international currencies, from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective, and applies the results in order to give an answer to the question: 'what role will the euro, the future single European currency, play in the international monetary and financial system when competing with the US dollar and the Japanese yen after its introduction, scheduled for January 1999?'