Download or read book A Guide to International Monetary Economics written by Herschel Visser and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work by Visser (money, banking, and international economics, Free U., Amsterdam), which is aimed at advanced students as well as professionals, explains the theories behind how exchange rates are determined since the collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1973. Changes in the updated second edition include an expanded treatment of international capital movements, an analysis of the East Asian crisis within the context of the Tobin tax, and the pros and cons of the recent rise to prominence of currency boards. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR