Elusive Stability: Essays in the History of International Finance, 1919-1939

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List of tables List of figures List of charts Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Real exchange rate behavior under alternative international monetary regimes 3. Understanding 1921-27: inflation and economic recovery in the 1920s 4. Bank rate policy under the interwar gold standard with Mark W. Watson and Richard S. Grossman 5. The Bank of France and the sterilization of gold, 1926-1932 6. International policy coordination in historical perspective: a view from the interwar years 7. The economic consequences of the Franc Poincare with Charles Wyplosz 8. Sterling and the tariff, 1929-32 9. Exchange rates and economic recovery in the 1930s with Jeffrey Sachs 10. The gold-exchange standard and the Great Depression 11. Hegemonic stability theories of the international monetary system Notes References Index.