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Swiss Monetary History since the Early 19th Century
About This Book
This book describes the remarkable path which led to the Swiss Franc becoming the strong international currency that it is today. Ernst Baltensperger and Peter Kugler use Swiss monetary history to provide valuable insights into a number of issues concerning the organization and development of monetary institutions and currency that shaped the structure of financial markets and affected the economic course of a country in important ways. They investigate a number of topics, including the functioning of a world without a central bank, the role of competition and monopoly in money and banking, the functioning of monetary unions, monetary policy of small open economies under fixed and flexible exchange rates, the stability of money demand and supply under different monetary regimes, and the monetary and macroeconomic effects of Swiss Banking and Finance. Swiss Monetary History since the Early 19th Century illustrates the value of monetary history for understanding financial markets and macroeconomics today.
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- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Political and Economic Development of Switzerland
- Part II A Chronological Review of Swiss Monetary History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Part III Key Questions and General Insights from Swiss Monetary Experience
- Bibliography
- Index