Mario I. Blejer
Latin America’s Currency Roller Coaster
BUENOS AIRES – Ever since World War II, the countries of Latin America have served as something of a currency laboratory. Across the region,…
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Yu Yongding
The Renminbi Goes Forth
BEIJING – In June, the Peoples’ Bank of China (PBC), China’s central bank, announced an end to the renminbi’s 23-month-old peg to the dollar…
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Hans-Joerg Rudloff, Paul Robinson
The Carry Trade Carries On
LONDON – The Bank for International Settlements recently reported that $4 trillion a day is traded in global foreign-exchange (FX) markets, …
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Sanou Mbaye
Africa’s Misplaced Monetary Ambitions
DAKAR – Sub-Saharan African is in the grip of currency-union mania. Regional groups of countries in eastern, southern, and western Africa ar…
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Howard Davies
Can Central Banks Still Influence Exchange Rates?
LONDON – On September 16, 1992, a date that lives in infamy in the United Kingdom as “Black Wednesday,” the Bank of England abandoned its ef…
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Barry Eichengreen
A World of Multiple Reserve Currencies
BERKELEY – The competition for reserve-currency status is conventionally portrayed as a winner-take-all game. There is room, in this view, f…
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Takatoshi Ito
Dollar Diplomacy and Japan’s Lost Decades
TOKYO – A specter is haunting China’s exchange-rate regime: the long-running dispute between the United States and Japan throughout the 1980…
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Christine Lagarde
Europe and the Euro
PARIS – For anyone living in the 16 eurozone member states, the euro’s enduring success is both a technical and an emotional issue; both hea…
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Martin Feldstein
The Future of the Dollar
CAMBRIDGE – American economic policy aims for a dollar that is strong at home and competitive abroad. A strong dollar at home means a dollar…
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