The international monetary environment -- The foreign exchange market -- International monetary arrangements -- The balance of payments -- International parity conditions -- Forward-looking instruments -- The eurocurrency market -- Exchange rates, interest rates, and interest parity -- Prices...

This paper, written as a chapter for a Handbook of International Economics, reviews developments in the theory of international monetary economics from the late 1960's through the early 1980's. Following a review of the operation of the monetary mechanism of balance of payments adjustment in the...