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Collapse of the Bretton Woods System Is the system of flexible exchange rates among the major currencies of the period since 1973 any better ?
Governments intervene in the foreign exchange market to a lesser or greater extent Dirty floating is the practice of using substantial intervention to try to maintain an exchange rate against the pressure of market forces
Interdependence
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Interdependence
U.S. Fiscal Expansion
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Policy Synchronization
Under flexible exchange rates there is as much interdependence as there is under fixed rates Exchange rate overshooting causes sharp changes in competitiveness Flexible rates are far from being a perfect system