The efforts of the central banks of Western industrial countries to stabilize exchange rates following the Louvre Agreement demonstrated yet again how difficult it can be to influence events in the foreign exchange markets. What factors are currently affecting exchange rates? What significance...

The Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates was abandoned at the beginning of March 1973 when currencies were allowed to float. Has the system of flexible exchange rates fulfilled the expectations placed in it? How should experiences with regional systems of fixed exchange rates be...