1st Edition

Speculation and the Dollar The Political Economy of Exchange Rates

By Laurence Krause Copyright 1991
312 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

I began serious consideration of the issues and subject matter that comprise this book as a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In need of a dissertation topic and vaguely curious about international monetary economics, I decided to sit in on Leonard Rapping's undergraduate course on international finance. Needless to say, I was soon hooked. Within several months I was... Read more

List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Diagrams -- Acknowledgments -- About the Book and Author -- 1 EXCHANGE RATES -- 2 FOREIGN EXCHANGE SPECULATION -- 3 THE FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET -- 4 MARKET FUNDAMENTALS -- 5 THE POLITICAL EXCHANGE RATE CYCLE -- 6 CONSEQUENCES AND POLICY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Biography

Laurence Krause