| Hyperinflation, Currency Board, and Bust: The Case of Argentina Contributor(s): Hagemann, Harald (Editor), Maute, Jutta (Author) |
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ISBN: 363155608X ISBN-13: 9783631556085 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $108.78 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Finance - General - Business & Economics | Money & Monetary Policy - Business & Economics | Development - Economic Development |
| LCCN: 2007416400 |
| Series: Hohenheimer Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften |
| Physical Information: 290 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book focuses on Convertibilidad , the latest Argentine experience of exchange rate based stabilisation, and aims at isolating the main causes for its tragic collapse in 2001-2002. The characteristics of Argentina's high and hyperinflation during the 1980s are analysed, and the theory of currency boards is expounded. The stabilisation tool, an institutionally highly credible currency board arrangement (CBA), though highly effective, could not be an optimal long-term solution, given the country's structural and trade characteristics. The analysis of the causes of the CBA's collapse yields a complex picture of interacting factors, among them invaliding ones that had created multiple vulnerabilities over years, and triggering ones that unfolded their worst potential in meeting such vulnerable conditions. |