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1987 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel

Exchange Rates and Exchange Controls

verfasst von : Roy Hattersley

Erschienen in: Economic Priorities for a Labour Government

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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A currency crisis, which would normally and inevitably follow as balance of payments difficulties loom was only held back in early 1987 by a combination of the highest real interest rates in our history (and in the developed world) and a number of fortuitious circumstances that cannot last — an OPEC price increase, chaos inside the EMS and dollar weakness. Nevertheless sterling still fell to its lowest ever level against the Deutschmark.

Metadaten
Titel
Exchange Rates and Exchange Controls
verfasst von
Roy Hattersley
Copyright-Jahr
1987
Verlag
Palgrave Macmillan UK
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18608-2_6