Description
This book compares and contrasts flexible versus fixed exchange rate regimes. Beginning with their theoretical justifications, it showcases their observed advantages and disadvantages as they played out in the currency crises of the 1990s and early 2000s across Asia, Europe and Latin America. An analysis of the drivers and implications of these crises singles out fast-paced liberalization and globalization as having played central roles. Moreover it sheds light on some of the factors contributing to the 2008 financial crisis and the key monetary events in its aftermath. An accessible, yet rigorous discussion, supported by extensive evidence, helps readers reach their own conclusions regarding the respective merits of alternative exchange rate systems. Marin Muzhani teaches at CDI College, has been a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Florence and visiting scholar in various universities in Europe and North America. His research interests include the economics of growth, macroeconomics and modern monetary theories such as optimum currency areas and monetary unions. He is the author of the critically acclaimed monograph “Mainstream Growth Economists and Capital Theorists”, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2014.
